duntov in A Sentence

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    The Corvette Duntov.

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    Cole agreed with many of Duntov's observations and set to work implementing them.

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    Duntov was one of the few who was willing to take a chance at GM.

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    In the Corvette, Duntov saw an opportunity to win some of this business for Chevrolet.

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    Duntov had been looking for a job with one of the major American automakers for several months.

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    Unlike most of the spectators, Duntov was an automotive engineer who would spent years working on and around race cars.

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    As the Corvette made steady improvement from one year to the next, Duntov also worked to raise Chevrolet's racing profile.

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    In his memo, Duntov observed that the hobby of fixing up cars and turning them into hot rods was a rapidly growing fad with young men.

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    Currently Fords were the cars of choice for hot-rodders, and Duntov speculated that when these young men outgrew their street racers, they were likely to continue buying Fords.

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    There the first Chevrolet Corvette was unveiled to the public, and like so many other people who got their first look at the car, Duntov was struck by its beauty.

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    Duntov had run his own businesses before, but he would never worked for a big corporation, and he had a tough time adjusting to life at GM, then the world's largest.

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    If Duntov thought he was going to be assigned full-time to the Corvette, he was probably disappointed- the car was so new and sold at such low volumes that no employees were assigned to it full-time.

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    Duntov may well have been the only engineer at GM who would have known how to play with race cars, and he was certainly one of the few with the insight to write his famous memo about Chevrolet and hot-rodders.

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    As soon as Cole felt that Duntov had been punished enough, he pulled him off of trucks and schoolbuses and assigned him to the team that was developing fuel injection for the 195-horsepower V-8 engine that would soon be replacing the Corvette's six-cylinder Stovebolt Six.

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