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 ...

Until the 265-cubic-inch (4.3-liter) small-block V8 arrived, the Corvette was fitted with the 235-cubic-inch (3.9-liter) Blue Flame inline-six. Rated at 150 horsepower and paired with a two-speed ...

The small-block series was issued in a range of displacements from 262 to 400 cubic inches (4.3 to 6.6 liters), although ... six engine known as the "Blue Flame." The Corvette's 235 cubic-inch ...