From the record

Notes on the novel

Public National Corvette Museum facts and documented engineering history. Museum language is labelled as museum narrative. No invented race results. The book is independent and is not in the museum shop.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov and her 1955 Corvette: Harvest Gold, then silver

  6 November 2026. Two cars, one model year. Burton pp. 238 to 239. Purchase dates, title, and stripe colour OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, US citizenship 1949: the index card and the petition we have not seen

  2 November 2026. SDNY, 6 June 1949. Petition 576869, 33 Riverside Drive. Petition, C-file, AR-2 OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov at the Automotive Hall of Fame gala, 1997: the interview we cannot hear

  28 October 2026. Dearborn, 9 August 1997. Widow of the 1991 inductee. Page live, stream dead, nothing quoted. OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, Corvette Hall of Fame 2022: recognition for her own work

  23 October 2026. Enthusiast Category. Burton’s acknowledgement, the biography choice, the enthusiasts. Film claims OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov at the Copa Cabana, Miami Beach

  Burton pp. 102–103 from her 1997 interviews. Venue 1944–1948 Documented. No clipping yet.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, 2008: ninety-three going on nineteen

  Died 23 October 2008, aged 93. The notices, the Burton line, where her ashes rest, and what is still open.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov parents: William Wolff and Klara Lapoehn

  Bayernallee 15 on acte 69. 1914 Neukölln marriage. Fate OPEN. Not seated at wedding.

• The First Lady of Corvette novel is out on Kindle

  Margot Dorée’s novel about Elfi Arkus-Duntov, out on Kindle 3 October 2026. What it is built from.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov and Jerry Burton: the authorized Zora biography

  Widow years after 1996. Museum: she enabled Burton’s Bentley 2002 life. Hours OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov at Grosse Pointe Woods

  521 Lochmoor letterhead. Duntov Way press. 2010 listing after her death; Elfi not seller.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov as Elfi Duka in Yours Is My Heart, 1946

  Dance Ensemble, Sam S. Shubert Theatre NYC, 5 Sep to 5 Oct 1946. Chicago geography OPEN.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov at Malcolm Konner, Paramus, June 1990

  June 1990 Class Glass concourse. Ticket stubs name both. Furman summers 1978–1990.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, Sea Witch then Sea Elf

  Owens then Chris-Craft. Burton p.239. Dirty OCR Sun Elfi is dead.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, Folies Bergère danseuse

  Acte 69 lists danseuse. Paris house, not Berlin. Bluebell programme OPEN.

• The list has her name.

  1940. Nyassa, Lisbon to New York. Elfi is on the index. Not a deck scene.

• She sat across from him.

  9 August 1935. Berlin café, dry night. Burton p.39. She told the nurse, not her mother.

• The harder drive was hers. It was an MG.

  June 1940. Museum narrative of Elfi’s MG J2 out of Paris. Labelled. Not a carte grise.

• She was on the 1954 car.

  1954 Le Mans. Burton caption puts Elfi on the Porsche 550. Labelled. Not 1955.

• She said it for him.

  11 February 1939, 15:30, Billancourt acte 69. She said yes for him. Parents are ID only.

• Elfi Arkus-Duntov, First Lady of Corvette

  Hall of Fame 2022, Enthusiast Category. The title is museum and biographer tradition.

• Zora Arkus-Duntov and the Corvette

  A GM engineer who made a show car into a sports car. The novel beside him.

• The National Corvette Museum

  Bowling Green. The institutional home. Visit. The book is not in the shop yet.