When was the first Chevrolet V8 made?

From what i recall reading is that the chevy bow tie came from a wall paper design that he saw in a hotel room in france.


jerry

 

William Durant said that he got the logo from a wallpaper design in Paris; his daughter said that he designed it during dinner at home. It made its first appearance in 1913.

Interestingly, Durant hated Chevrolet the man. He was too rough around the edges for Durant's taste. Durant, however, absolutely loved his name.

 

I've read that Chevrolet bought back as many of those original V8's as they could. The bad publicity was not helping them! I wonder if they ever considered buying back any of their later mistakes!!

 

I would never have guessed, thats an interesting bit of trivia.

 

Don't know if its true or not but I heard that you had to take an oil can and squirt down the valvetrain occasionally on those early v8s. If true, that certainly could have led to them being discontinued.


Frank

 

Ever ride with a Nimbus rider??

You DO have to oil those rockers...and if the engine don't...

Cosmo

 

Someone just brought up to to me tonight that The Ford flathead V8 was actually a Chevrolet design?

 

The Chevrolet was an over head design with exposed push rods. The flathead was a, well, flathead. The valves are in the block and it's a single cast engine. The early Cheb was several castings bolted together......too expensive to mass produce. This is why Henry worked so long to design a one pc. cast block for the flatty...

However, I'm sure Henry looked at the design to see what they did wrong.... And they were wrong for many years after that!

Now, go set that fella straight!

 

When the flattie guys start yelling "real engines don't have valve covers" I don't think they would know what to say about this....

 

still holds true...they should have stuck with that design

 

It's always interesting to take a look at the engineering inside those old engines. Hell, it took a team of modern engineers to get an original Wright Flyer engine to work.

LOL, that is signature material there.

 

Hmmm...they better get their nomenclature straight before thev start yipping.
To quote the 1928-32 parts manual, part 18-6520 is "cover (Valve chamber)".
You might think of it as a flathead intake manifold, but...

 

found this....pretty neat!

I know the site has been linked before, but I think this brochure is new...

http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Chev/1913/index.html

 

here is pics of car and engine

 

Here goes