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C4 Corvette fitted with Paxton SN-86 supercharger. Paxton Automotive is a United States–based manufacturer of superchargers for automotive use. The company is the major proponent of the centrifugal type supercharger. Early products were offered under the McCulloch name. Some Paxton superchargers have been factory fitted, but most units sold ...
A Paxton supercharger was offered as an option. [17] In eight days the stylists finished a "clay scale model with two different sides: one a two-place sports car, the other a four-seat GT coupe." [18] Tom Kellogg, a young California stylist hired for this project by Loewy, "felt it should be a four-seat coupe."
Originally built as a factory 427 competition car in 1965, it was upgraded in 1967 with dual Paxton superchargers on its 427 cubic-inch V8, delivering extreme power through a three-speed automatic ...
A Paxton centrifugal supercharger became available in 1954 as a dealer-installed option, greatly improving the Corvette's straight-line performance, [20] but sales continued to decline. The Chevrolet division was GM's entry-level marque. [21]
Paxton Automotive – automobile superchargers; STP – Chemical Compounds Division, Des Plaines, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California. Produced automotive engine additives. Schaefer – Commercial Refrigeration Division, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Aberdeen, Maryland; Studebaker of Canada – Automotive Manufacturing, Hamilton, Ontario
The Paxton Phoenix was a rear-engine coupé prototype developed in 1953 by Robert P. McCulloch's Paxton Automotive of Los Angeles, California, a division of his chainsaw business. The car was styled by Brooks Stevens and featured a cable driven mechanical hardtop that retracted and covered the trunk.