However, the first 'Vette that Chevy sold in 1953 had a relatively anemic inline-six engine known as the "Blue Flame." The Corvette's 235 cubic-inch Blue Flame six-cylinder engine was based on the ...

The Blue Flame Six is Corvette’s first engine, based on the architecture of an inline-six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engine known as the Stovebolt Six. Chevrolet engineers took that truck engine ...