Throughout American culture, there have always been people and sometimes objects that are famous enough to be recognized by a single name. In the automotive world, buzzwords for greatness include Hemi, Shelby, and Fuelie. Corvettes manufactured between 1957 and 1965 and equipped with a fuel injected small-block engine are given special respect, and they remain some of the most desirable Corvettes ever built. In that era, Fuelie was the slang term used to describe any fuel injected Corvette. In addition to the rough exhaust note created by the high compression ratio and long-duration camshaft, the fuel injection units emitted a distinctive hiss at idle. In their day, the fuel injected Corvettes were the fastest cars on the street, road course, or drag strip. Developed by Zora Arkus-Duntov and built by GM s Rochester division, this fuel injection unit turned the docile small-block into a super performance engine that had as much visual impact as it had horsepower. When released in 1957, the fuel injected 283 cubic inch engine developed 283 horsepower one horsepower per cubic inch. The last of the fuel injected Corvettes developed 375 horsepower. Fuelies celebrates nine years of production of the Corvette, the Corvette engines, and the fuel-injection units that transformed the car into an icon. The fuelie Chevrolet s extensive racing resume is not neglected, with an entire chapter devoted to accomplishments on the track. There is even a chapter on passenger car installations and coverage of other fuel-injection experiments of the era.