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 ...

Although they came with a range of power and torque, the most exciting application was the Blue Flame six-cylinder of the debut 1953 Corvette. Engineers reworked the engine with several ...

The model year featured the company’s second-generation “Stovebolt” straight-six “Blue Flame” engine and the then-new Vacuum ...