Experts on Tour: Jerry Burton

Jerry Burton
SVP, Associate Creative Director
Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Founding & Current Editor of Corvette Quarterly Magazine

Biography
Jerry Burton is best known as the founding editor and current editorial director of Corvette Quarterly. While heavily immersed in the corvette world, he met and forged a close friendship with Zora and Elfi Duntov. As Jerry came to know Zora personally, his desire to paint an accurate picture of this fascinating and complex man developed into the ultimate biography of Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette. Jerry Burton lives in Michigan with his wife Nancy and son Michael.

Abstracts
Zora Arkus-Duntov: the Legend Behind Corvette
Mr. Burton will tell the story of this fascinating man, Zora Arkus-Duntov, and how a gifted Russian engineer brought up by Russian Revolutionary parents became the guiding force behind the quintessential American sports car, and in the process attained the elite status of American legend himself.

Corvette, America's Sports Car - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Mr. Burton will discuss how the Chevrolet Corvette came to be one of the most popular sports cars in the world - and the longest-running automotive nameplate in Chevrolet history.

2009 Corvette ZR1 Blue Devil
Mr. Burton will discuss the inside story of how the $100,000 Corvette ZR1 was created and what enables its 200-plus mph performance. This story is fully documented in the second edition of his book, Corvette, America's Sports Car, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, being released in April 2008.