INJECTION PERFECTION

It’s quite fashionable to chortle up your sleeve when it comes to American cars and new technology. But in the case of fuelinjection, the Yanks weren’t far off the pace at all. While Mercedes-Benz is well known to have fitted fuelinjection to a production car with its 300SL of 1954, the very first injected petrol production car was a Goliath GP700 (also German-made) in 1952 which used basically a diesel injection pump with a throttle valve. But by 1956 (for the 1957 model year) Chevrolet was offering Rochester mechanical injection on 283-cube versions of its Corvette.