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Myron Scott was known by his friends and family as “Scottie.” Scott’s ties with Chevrolet would at last lead him to name the most recognized sports car in the world – the Corvette.
Scott was a photographer at heart and by profession and in 1933 he was snapping shots of six local Oakwood Ohio boys racing make-shift box cars down a hill and he had a brilliant idea. The very next year he started what is now known throughout the country as the Soap Box Derby and after his derby brought in a lot of 300 contenders and over 40,000 viewers in 1934, Chevrolet took detect and then became the title sponsor of the event. That sponsorship would go on until 1972 and it was that introduction to Chevrolet that gave Scott the in he necessitated to set in motion the course of history.
In 1937 Scott was hired by GM as the assistant conductor for the Public Relations department. His duties were immense an included amongst other things, designing press kits, designing graphics for particular events, and snapping outstanding looking photos of the new GM model cars. Then in 1953 something happened that would change the way that everyone would view a sure sports car that was still being invented underneath the code name “Project Opal.”
Chevrolet wanted their new a sports car to be named something that started with the letter “C” and over 300 names were suggested and submitted by each level of employee at GM. After cautiously screening them all, the GM management team didn’t find any that they liked and foilings were beginning to grow. Later that week Scott was looking through the dictionary underneath “C” and stopped on the name Corvette which meant a fast moving pursuit ship of the British Navy.
The next day Scott staged his name idea to the big brass at GM and they evidently loved and so the Corvette came to pass. Thanks to Scott’s looking through the dictionary the world has the Corvette to love and not the Coral or the Copestone. Not only did Scott get to name the new sports car, he got to photograph it and the Corvette would quickly become one of his bestloved cars in the GM fleet to snap photos of.
Many of the advertisements in the years to come all featured photographs taken by Scott and a heap of of those photographs still live in the pages of Corvette history books. Scott would proceed his work at GM and wouldn’t retire from there until 1971. He continued to get enjoyment from photography in his retirement and in 1998 he passed on at the age of 91. If ever there was a man who veritably lived a full and rewarding life, it was Scott.
In 2002 Scott was esteemed with an induction into the Corvette Hall of Fame where his story will for a limitless time be told and all those that love the car will know where it is name came from. The tribute is in truth a fitting one for the man who in a literal sense gave the world the name Corvette.
1953 2011 Corvette Black Book
Chevrolet’s Corvette is the most iconic, and numerous would say only, sports car built in America. This lavishly illustrated work conducts readers through the Corvette’s fifty-plus years of ceaseless production, a rich and varied history unmatched in the automotive world.
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Corvette Enthusiast, April 2007
“No matter what percentage of the Corvette scene fascinates you – history, racing, restoration, high performance driving, engineering, technical innovations, or whatsoever – you’ll not be disappointed in The Complete Book of Corvette. It sweeps the reader away on a magical tour of the Corvette world from it is inception in 1953 to the present.”
Vette, July 2007
“If you breathe, eat and sleep Corvettes and Corvette lore, [The Complete Book of Corvette is] another must-have for your automotive library. In fact, [it] may be the most indepth review to date of America’s preeminent sports car.”
Road and Track, June 2007
“A massive undertaking, this…book lives up to it is name by detailing all six generations of Chevrolet’s plastic fantastic”
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 The Corvette book of the year
By Rider Boy
I own a C4 Corvette and try to buy each Corvette book that comes out. I was given a genuinely bad Corvette book for a Christmas gift this year (“Corvette: America’s Sports Car: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” by Jerry Burton), a cheesy, vinyl-covered tossed-together collection of factoids and tired photography. I went out and purchased this one myself. This is the book all Corvette owners must own. It is a well-written history of the Corvette that is so finish it serves as the uttermost Corvette resource book. Best of all, it’s filled with 100s of never-before-seen photographs from GM Design’s archives. That alone is worth the price of admission. If someone got you that low-rent red vinyl Corvette book as a gift, fetch it back to the store and interchange it for this one.
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Dream Cars
By Billy Wannyn
This book has a well written history on the Corvette!! Great Cars – If you are a lover of Corvettes, like me, this is the book for you!! It is a book your wife will let you leave on the coffee table!
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8 of 8 persons found the following review helpful.
 Excellent Corvette History
By Michael Nott
I purchased this book to aid me in my search for a car to buy. It was utile in that regard, but it is also a very interesting history of an iconic automobile. My exploration interest was in the fifth generation of the Corvette (the C5) since that is the model I was mesmerized in buying. The chapters on the other models were very informative and entertaining. I take pleasure in reading history, peculiarly automotive history, and this book fit the bill for the Corvette. It is a little short on raw data, but I don’t think that was the aim of the author in the primary place. All in all, a good buy.
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