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	Chevrolet - Wikicars
		Chevrolet's product line-up in Brazil now comprises some exclusive designs like the Corsa "B" based Celta sold in Argentina under the Suzuki brand, the Astra, and a brand new, Brazilian designed Vectra based on the current Opel Astra, while the current Corsa is built and the Omega name is now used on the Holden Commodore.
		Chevrolet had a presence in Argentina since the 1960s where it locally produced the Chevy II (sold in Argentina as the Chevrolet 400 or Chevy), but it stopped its operations in 1981, due to high inflation.
		Current Chevrolets include the Spark (a rebadged Daewoo Matiz), Aveo, Optra, the Lumina (including a pickup version), and the Vivant, an MPV that is a rebadged version of the Daewoo Tacuma.
	www.wikicars.org /en/Chevrolet (0 words)

	Louis Chevrolet Event, Louis Chevrolet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis Chevrolet est l'homme qui a donné son nom à la plus populaire et à la plus célèbre des voitures américaines, Aujourd'hui, plus de 100 millions de voitures sillonnent les routes du monde entier.
		Pour des raisons essentiellement financières et concurrentielles, Louis Chevrolet se vit contraint de quitter en 1913 la société qui portait son nom, et ce jusqu'en 1933, année de la fusion avec la General Motors Co à l'époque où la marque s'imposait.
		Louis Chevrolet restera dans les mémoires l'un des grands pionniers de l'automobile, précurseur des innovations et des techniques qui équipent aujourd'hui l'automobile moderne.
	www.surface.ch /louis-chevrolet/louischevrolet.htm (790 words)

	Who was Louis Chevrolet?
		The name "Chevrolet" is thought to be a French corruption of "goat's milk." Louis Chevrolet was born on Christmas day 1878 in Swiss Jura, the center of the French dairy industry region.
		Chevrolet began a career in bicycle repair and soon the muscular six-foot youth was racing bikes.
		Chevrolet drove a Buick in the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 but a broken camshaft put him out of the race early.
	ky.essortment.com /louischevrolet_rdgn.htm (787 words)

	Marcel Grauls homepage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis Chevrolet was stevig gebouwd, 1,83 meter groot, om en bij de 100 kg zwaar.
		Louis zou eerst bij een zadelmaker in de leer zijn gegaan, dan bij een huisschilder; volgens sommige bronnen was hij een tijdlang gids van een blinde wijnhandelaar en vond hij in die opleidingsjaren zelfs een nieuwe wijnpomp uit.
		Louis Chevrolet is de enige constructeur uit de geschiedenis die erin slaagde twee jaar na elkaar te winnen (1920 en 1921) met twee totaal verschillende motoren.
	www.marcelgrauls.be /content/view/14/2 (3124 words)

	Chevrolet - Wikicars
		Chevrolet's product line-up in Brazil now comprises some exclusive designs like the Corsa "B" based Celta sold in Argentina under the Suzuki brand, the Astra, and a brand new, Brazilian designed Vectra based on the current Opel Astra, while the current Corsa is built and the Omega name is now used on the Holden Commodore.
		Chevrolet had a presence in Argentina since the 1960s where it locally produced the Chevy II (sold in Argentina as the Chevrolet 400 or Chevy), but it stopped its operations in 1981, due to high inflation.
		Current Chevrolets include the Spark (a rebadged Daewoo Matiz), Aveo, Optra, the Lumina (including a pickup version), and the Vivant, an MPV that is a rebadged version of the Daewoo Tacuma.
	wikicars.org /en/Chevrolet (1469 words)

	Bad Lizzy
		Its founder, Louis Chevrolet, was a racing driver born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
		The name "Chevrolet" is thought to be a French corruption of "goat's milk." Louis Chevrolet was born on Christmas day 1878 in Swiss Jura, the center of the French dairy industry region.
		When Chevrolet introduced a new model in 1925, the Superior, it was competing with a Ford Model T so old in its design and so different from its contemporaries that some states required a special license to drive it.
	users.pandora.be /Noise.And.Silence/Chevyfacts/Chevroletfacts.htm (2467 words)

	Louis Chevrolet Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941) was a fearless automobile racer who displayed little concern for his own safety when the outcome of a race was in doubt.
		Chevrolet continued to race until his younger brother, Gaston, was killed in a Los Angeles race in November 1920.
		In 1934, Chevrolet became a consultant at the Chevrolet division of General Motors, where he remained until he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was forced to retire in 1938.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-chevrolet (1694 words)

	Swiss Roots: Louis Chevrolet
		Louis Chevrolet was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the French speaking part of Switzerland, a center of the watch industry, but moved to France with his family at the age of nine.
		Chevrolet went on to design more cars; his Frontenac won the Indy 500 in 1920 when it was driven by his younger brother Gaston.
		Louis Chevrolet is buried in Indianapolis, where the Chevrolet memorial was dedicated in 1975.
	history.swissroots.org /108.0.html (409 words)

	Welcome to Chevrolet
		The Chevrolet "490" is introduced to challenge the Model T Ford.
		Chevrolet cars are completely restyled for the second year in a row.
		Chevrolet is first to build more than 3 million cars and trucks in a single year.
	www.chevrolet.co.in /content_data/AP/IN/en/GBPIN/001/BRANDSITE/makingofchevy.html (560 words)

	WHITING & LITTLE FOUR STATE REGISTRATIONS Revised 9-22-97
		Louis Chevrolet resigned in September 1913 after he returned from France on a vacation having seen the 1913 French Grand Prix There were probably engineering jealousies which combined with the overwhelming desire to build his own race car and go racing as he had at Buick.
		Chevrolet will be actively engaged from this time on with his duties in connection with the manufacture of a motor car which will have as its leading factor a specially designed engine which he invented last winter.
		Louis understood that the 1913 Peugeot 3 litre was the finest racer of that period, and this fantastic little French car, with its high speed DOHC engine, signaled the start of the design school that influence the construction of most race cars from that day forward.
	clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/chevytalk/GMhistory/earlychevhistory.htm (16286 words)

	Heinrich Chevrolet
		Its founder, Louis Chevrolet, was a racing driver, born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
		The Chevrolet Camaro was a compact car introduced in North America by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors at the start of the 1967 model year as competition for the Ford Mustang.
		Louis Chevrolet is buried in the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/39/heinrich-chevrolet.html (2365 words)

	Chevrolet Commercial Chassis - Partstrain.com
		Among the large marquee of GM are Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Gm Daewoo, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Vauxhall.
		Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant are the persons behind the beginning of the Chevrolet name.
		It was in 1955 that Chevrolet became a household name for automobiles because of their invention of their invention of the versatile V8 engine.
	www.partstrain.com /ShopByVehicle/CHEVROLET/COMMERCIAL_CHASSIS (0 words)

	Louis Chevrolet - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		When 21-year-old Louis Chevrolet left his home in La Chauxde-Fonds, Switzerland in 1900 to move to North America, he set in motion a chain of events that would leave indelible marks on American automotive and motorsports history.
		Chevrolet's fierce independence and eye for perfection caused him to leave the infant Chevrolet company and embark upon a venture which took him back to his first love, racing.
		Louis Chevrolet, whose motto was "never give up;' took his last laps at Indy in 1926 as the official pace car driver.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1992/Louis_Chevrolet_main.htm (405 words)

	Chevrolet
		Louis Chevrolet emigrated to the United States from France in 1900.
		Chevrolet played an active role in the formation of the Chevrolet Motor Company, which later becomes a division of General Motors.
		Durant envisions his new company as an inexpensive competitor to the Ford Model-T. He chose to name the company after its designer Louis Chevrolet because he liked the sound of the name and because Chevrolet was a prominent name in motor sports.
	local.aaca.org /bntc/kidskorner/picturepgs/chevy.htm (337 words)

	History of a legend - Chevrolet UK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chevrolet’s racing career took off properly in 1907 at the wheel of a Buick Bug.
		The Chevrolet brand quickly became synonymous with quality, value, reliability and affordability – a fact underlined by Chevrolet’s toppling of Ford’s Model T from its No 1 sales position, and its domination of the US car sales charts for 40 years straight, from 1936 to 1976.
		Now, Chevrolet is moving into the 21st century (and into the UK) with a sharp, brilliantly engineered range of cars designed to answer not just the practical demands of today’s motorists, but also some of the more emotional ones.
	www.chevrolet.co.uk /info/about_company/chevrolet_history.htm (529 words)

	Chevrolet's European roots
		But is was not only the man himself – Louis Chevrolet (1878 – 1941), racing driver, car designer – who hailed from Europe: From 1924 to the end of the 1960s, nearly a quarter of a million Chevrolets were assembled from kits in Denmark, Belgium, Sweden and Switzerland for these markets.
		At the turn of the century, aged 22, Louis Chevrolet, the son of a watchmaker born in the Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, immigrated to America.
		Chevrolet, whose weakness for cars came to light early on, completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic in the New World and began racing cars in 1905.
	www.worldcarfans.com /classics.cfm/classicid/5050805.001/country/gm/chevrolet/chevrolet's-european-roots (1417 words)

	Chevrolet Pics, Stats, & History
		Chevrolet, which is now part of General Motors (GM), was founded by Louis Chevrolet on November 3rd, 1911 to compete with Ford's Model T. Louis was a race car driver who was born on December 25th, 1878, in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland.
		Louis Chevrolet was a mechanical genius who lacked a traditional education, and took after his older brother Gaston who won the 1920 Indy 500 from a car he built himself.
		Although most of GM's Chevrolet branding is shown to North America, Chevy retains brand names in some foreign countries as well for various GM cars such as the Lumina, Corsa, Astra, and the Vectra.
	www.carchaos.com /chevrolet (518 words)

	Chevrolet
		Chevrolet tuvo una gran influencia en el mercado automotriz estadounidense durante la décadas de 1950 y 1960.
		Chevrolet tuvo una importante presencia en la Argentina desde la década de los sesentas cuando se inició la producción local del Chevy II (comercializado como Chevrolet 400 o simplemente Chevy), pero detuvo sus operaciones en 1981 debido a la crisis inflacionaria.
		En México algunos modelos Chevrolet originarios del Opel como el Vectra son vendidos a los Estados Unidos cabe mencionar también que el Vectra mexicano es el mismo que se vende en Europa mientras que en Brasil el vectra deriva del actual Opel Astra.
	www.aceleracion.com /chevrolet (0 words)

	Chevrolet History - Edmunds.com
		Chevrolet sells an impressively wide range of vehicles, from subcompact hatchbacks to huge vans and SUVs.
		Chevrolet quickly became another division of GM, earning honors as GM's largest volume division by the mid-1920s.
		Chevrolet stands tall as the manufacturer of some of the most famous American cars and trucks of all time, including the '57 Bel Air, the Corvette, the Camaro, the Blazer and the Suburban.
	www.edmunds.com /chevrolet/history.html (488 words)

	FLEET (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jozef Chevrolet, geboren in 1956 en woonachtig in Wambeek, is een echt familielid van de oprichter van het roemruchte merk Chevrolet, Louis Chevrolet.
		De kunstzinnige en non-conformistische Jozef Chevrolet, in ware familietraditie, is zelf gepassioneerd door auto's.
		Van vorming is hij automecanicien en hij werkt, evenals Louis vroeger, bij een autofabriek: Volkswagen Vorst, nabij Brussel.
	www.fleetinbelgium.com /modules.php?name=index&file=readmore&id=445&language=nl (142 words)

	General Motors And NASCAR Racing
		While Louis Chevrolet was out of the country, Durant stepped in and made design changes, which angered Chevrolet.
		Louis Chevrolet then devoted his time to the development of racing cars, and once held a speed record of 111 mph.
		Louis was the older brother of Gaston Chevrolet.
	www.circletrack.com /thehistoryof/139_0306_gm/index3.html (206 words)

	Hemmings Motor News: Louis Chevrolet
		Louis Chevrolet demonstrated mechanical acumen very early in life and by all indications, wasn't upset when his eldest son eschewed formal schooling.
		Louis Chevrolet was apparently the first of the three brothers to arrive in the United States, around 1900.
		Louis' dream was to see his name adorn a premium car akin to the pur sang marques of Europe.
	www.hemmings.com /mus/stories/2006/07/01/hmn_feature9.html (0 words)

	Chevrolet
		Het merk werd in 1911 opgericht door Louis Chevrolet, een Europese ingenieur en Billy Durant, een Amerikaan die later General Motors oprichtte.
		Van 1924 tot 1965 werden bijna 250.000 Chevrolets voor Europese klanten gemaakt in fabrieken in Kopenhagen, Stockholm, Antwerpen, Biel, Warschau en Berlijn.
		Chevrolet staat voor bewezen techniek, kwaliteit, expressieve styling en biedt veel waar voor uw geld.
	www.chevrolet.nl /over-ons/over-ons-overzicht.html (0 words)

	A Picture Review of the Chevrolet from 1916 to 1942
		Finally in 1934, GM put Louis Chevrolet on their payroll as a mechanic in one of the factories.
		However the Louis' car: The Classic Six was far too expensive (USD 2100,-) to compete with the T-Ford, so Durant had to skip the big, expensive car and go for small, simple ones as the Little Four.
		A story in Chevrolet Pro Management Magazine, October 1986, which was copied in the May 1987 GandD, told that W.C. Durant did not copy the design from the wallpaper in a French hotel room, and that according to Mrs.
	oldcarandtruckpictures.com /Chevrolet (1972 words)

	Louis Chevrolet
		Louis Chevrolet est né en Suisse et a passé son adolescence dans le Jura.
		Louis avait déjà un frère Alfred Edouard né en 1876, puis la famille s'agrandira avec Emile Arthur en avril 1884, puis Marthe Marie en octobre 1885 qui mourra en bas âge.
		Certainement l'idée a fait son chemin dans la tête de Louis Chevrolet qui en même temps prouvait son esprit de compétition en gagnant un bon nombre de courses cyclistes avec des primes mettant du beurre dans les épinards des finances familiales.
	www.webcarcenter.com /magazine/chevrolet/dossier_chevrolet.html (496 words)

	Welcome to Chevrolet
		William Durant, a successful buggy manufacturer from Flint, Michigan, asked Louis Chevrolet, a well known race car driver, to help design a car for introduction to the public.
		Chevrolet got named after its designer because Durant liked the sound of the name and because Chevrolet was a prominent name in motor sports.
		The bowtie has, since then, become an advertising icon, and is still the marquee of today's Chevrolet.
	www.chevrolet.co.in /content_data/AP/IN/en/GBPIN/001/BRANDSITE/bowtie.html (143 words)

	Auta, automobily Chevrolet - automobily chevrolet, chevrolet spark, chevrolet camaro, chevrolet captiva, chevrolete ...
		Společnost Chevrolet založili závodník Louis Chevrolet a zakladatel General Motors William C. Durant.
		V roce 1955 uvedl Chevrolet na trh proslulý „small block“ 4,3L V8 motor, který se stal nejznámějším a nejuniverzálnějším V8 motorem vůbec.
		Chevrolet reprezentuje nejprodávanější značku koncernu General Motors a svou evropskou expanzí zvýšil celkové povědomí o svém jménu.
	chevrolet.katalog-automobilu.cz (0 words)

	LOUIS JOSEPH CHEVROLET - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/29/1930
		Rare, important TLS: "Louis Chevrolet" as President of the Chevrolet Aircraft Corporation, 1p, 8½x11.
		Chevrolet Motors was incorporated into General Motors in 1915, after Chevrolet, having little confidence in his first car, sold his interest to his partner, William Durant.
		Chevrolet later became involved in motorboat racing and aviation before joining General Motors in 1936 in the division named for him.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/8_2001/business/LOUIS_JOSEPH_CHEVROLET.htm (310 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		Frank Nash was handcuffed throughout the trip from the train to the Chevrolet, which was parked directly in front of the east entrance of Union Station.
		Miller was reported to have been a hired gunman for Louis Buchalter early in his crime career.
		On January 4, 1935, the four were found guilty of conspiracy to cause the escape of a Federal Prisoner from the custody of the United States.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/floyd/floyd.htm (3135 words)

	Fast Cars, 'French Type' Little Fours, and Big Sixes
		If this had been the painted white Chevrolet Special, which was a sanitary looking race car, it would have had the name “Chevrolet” painted on the side of the seats, and I don’t think Louis and his racer would have gone unrecognized by the local constable.
		Remember, the FDJ reported on May 30th that Louis Chevrolet was to be a future partner with Durant, which implies he was still doing business as an individual.
		Louis Chevrolet was awarded $10,000 in stock in the Chevrolet Motor Co., for his last name, his design and testing contributions, and the value to the company Durant placed on Louis’ earlier business venture.
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