Hot Rod magazine's Eric Dahlquist summed up the '66 Corvette pretty darn well in just two paragraphs as part of a new-model overview in the magazine's Nov. 1965 issue: "Pick a gear, any gear, and punch it; the effect is always sensational if not breathtaking. The 396 V-8 introduced last year has been bored an eighth, the compression upped to 11.0:1, and the neat NASCAR Holley three-barrel added for second wind.
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