Decades ago, purists could still order a no-nonsense, ultra-high-performance 1960 Chevrolet Corvette roadster by picking and choosing carefully from the options list. In fact, Chevrolet said as much: "1960 CORVETTE . . . more than ever, the pure definition of a sports car!"
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Power and blinding acceleration were the driving forces behind development of the 1969 Chevrolet Corvette 427. Forget subtlety: that was for foreign iron. Besides, the big-block Corvette could outsprint them all -- at least in a straight line.
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The past several years of the C3 Corvette has brought about rumors of a complete overhaul to the look of the now fabled Corvette. Enthusiasts and the world alike waited eagerly for the release of the all new 1983 Corvette.
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Mako Shark Attacks C31968 brought us the body that most closely resembled the XP-755 Mako Shark Concept of 1961, and this new style Sting Ray would prove to be a popular design, as well as the longest lasting generation of styling to date. While the flip open headlights and the dual round tail lights remained, as well as the general Corvette feel, this new style was clearly a new generation. Where as the nose sat higher on the C2's, this new design had it lower to the ground and with the high arches of the fenders swelled over all four wheels, it carried a very muscular look, whether in a hard top or convertible.
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The Aquatic facelift-C2In 1963 the Corvette of old was gone, and with the beginning of the Corvette Sting Ray, and it was an entirely new body. The 1963 was the first offering of a coupe, and this is often considered one of the most famous, and most valuable production models, thanks in part to the 1963-only rear window; the famous split window. Production of this model year, for both the split window coupe, and the ragtop combined put the Corvette production over twenty-thousand units for the first time. The 63 Corvette still featured the 327, building 360 horsepower, and in this model year five Grand Sport Corvettes were built with an all aluminum 377 cubic inch engine with dual ignition and port fuel injection, strictly for racing purposes. All five of those Grand Sports still exist in ...
June of 1953 brought the production of the Corvette to the life, and in thirtieth of that same month, the first production Corvette fell the plant of manufacture in the pedernal, plants number 35 of Michigan GM. The plant of manufacture by a very lucky worker named was eliminated Tony Kleiber. This first Corvette took a price of label gummed of the window of slightly on three thousand dollars American. A motor of the cylinder of the cubical inch offered 235 seises that constructed 150 horsepowers, and was controlled by an automatic transmission of two speeds. It was only offered in target of the pole, with a red interior, and a black controlled the cover manually.
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While the style of a car may be just as important to some as to how well the car runs, automobile manufacturers did not begin to pay attention to car designs until the 1920s. It was not until 1927, when General Motors hired designer Harley Earl, that automotive styling and design became important to American automobile manufacturers. What Henry Ford did for automobile manufacturing principles, Harley Earl did for car design. Most of GM’s flamboyant “dream car” designs of the 1950s are directly attributable to Earl, leading one journalist to comment that the designs were “the American psyche made visible.” Harley Earl loved sports cars, and GIs returning after serving overseas World War II were bringing home MGs, Jaguars, Alfa Romeos and the like. Earl convince...
The Corvette is a sports car first manufactured by Chevrolet in 1953 and is built today exclusively at a General Motors assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It was the first all-American sports car built by an American car manufacturer. The National Corvette Museum is also located in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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