Tom Ramirez
Corvette researcher and historian based in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Two decades documenting Corvette production history from original factory records.
Tom Ramirez relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky specifically to be closer to the center of Corvette history — the assembly plant, the museum, and the community of collectors and researchers who have spent their lives documenting the marque. What started as a personal obsession became a long-running research project covering every generation of Corvette production from 1953 onward.
His focus is factory documentation: build sheets, tank stickers, dealer records, and the production decisions that defined each generation. He's spent years cross-referencing surviving cars against production data and tracing the development history through original sources. He writes about Corvettes the way a historian writes about any subject — methodically, with primary sources whenever possible, and with a healthy skepticism toward the myths that accumulate around desirable cars.
Tom owns a 1967 427/435 Sting Ray, a 1972 LT-1 coupe, and a daily-driver C5 Z06.
Magazine Articles by Tom Ramirez
How the 1965 Galaxie Rewrote the Big-Car Ride
Restoring a Colonnade Monte Carlo - Scene Stories
The Diesel El Camino Nobody Talks About
Decal Muscle: The G-Body El Camino SS
GTO 0-60 Times by Model and Year
The Royal Knight and the Art of 1980s Hood Graphics
1973 vs 1972 Monte Carlo - The Generational Leap
The 1965 LTD: When Ford Out-Luxuried the Competition
Big Bumpers and the Mid-Seventies Monte Carlo
The Lasting Legacy of the 1968 Reinvention
Pre-War vs Post-War Cars: The Great Divide
Stacked and Stately: The 1965 Galaxie Face
The 1985 El Camino and the Long G-Body Twilight
What the 1966-1970 Riviera Gave the Nameplate
Survivor Stories: Original 1968 El Caminos
1973 Monte Carlo vs Grand Prix and Cutlass Supreme
Owning a 1962 Galaxie in the Modern Scene
1962 Galaxie vs Plymouth Sport Fury
Early 1962 Galaxie Lightweight Efforts
The 1968 El Camino Against the Muscle Establishment
The Gran Sport Chapter of the 1966-70 Riviera
The Everyday Charm of a 1968 El Camino
The Last of the Rear-Drive SS - 1988 Farewell
