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.
In all, three hundred 1953 Corvettes were constructed with the happened one that were constructed the 24 of December of 1953. All the 1953 Corvettes were only offered to VIPs specially selected and to means of test of the automobile, but with the introduction of Ford Thunderbird in 1954 it got to be officially available for the purchase of the public in general. In order to prepare itself for the increase in sales, the plant was moved from the pedernal to St. Louis Missouri, who could construct ten at least thousandth by the end of the year, yet only thirty and six hundreds and forty were constructed. Along with some changes of smaller importance here and there, Corvette 1954 offered the options of the blue one of the pennant, red of the color of the buyer of the Sportsman, and the black, along with the target of the pole, and previously only the black cover was available now in yellowish, and took a price under near $2774.
1955 brought around more foreign exchanges and of the interior of smaller importance, and two great changes of the line of conduction. Whereas the motor of six cylinders still was available and now it constructed 155 horsepowers, and the automatic transmission of two speeds still was available, the 55 Corvette offered the first manual transmission, and the first V8 motor. This new V8 was a motor of cubical inch 265 with the valves of above and took a quadruple carburetor, that made a beer of malto 195 horsepowers. Newer colors came around, the copper with a yellowish gold of the interior and the harvest with a green and yellow interior was introduced, and the gypsy red cars now offered a slight yellowish interior. Along with the black and yellowish, the white covers and green cover dark were offered, in canvas and vinyl.
1956 caused the first physical changes to the Corvette. Whereas he himself general aspect was preserved, a cleared form of the defense was adapted with the adjustment of the lantern of chromium, and in the later part, the panels quarters were cleared down to where the lights of the tail are molded in the later end. Throughout the side of the car, the concave section was fit chromium, like the new handles externally mounted of the door.
The interiors were only offered in yellowish or red, and the external colors were black, white Onyx of the pole, red veneciano, connect in cascade green copper, Aztec, and the blue Arctic. This caused the first year for the cover lasts jettisonable, and was also the first year without the option of the motor of six cylinders.
1957 had he himself physical aspect that model 1956, but had a great change. The V8 motor had been enlarged to 283 inches cubical, and constructed 283 horsepowers it is thankful to the system introduced again of the injection of fuel and to the control that the horsepowers a new manual transmission of four speeds got to be available. Seven outer colors were offered: Onyx is blackened, target of the pole, receives Aztec, connected in green cascade, the blue Arctic, the red veneciano, and silver of the Inca, and could come with a white or yellowish lateral cove from silver, and a black, a target, or a yellowish cover. The front end model 1958 obtained an aesthetic surgery of smaller importance, with the addition of two more lanterns. Also, to give to the car a glance classy, the chromium was added to the chapel, the trunk, and next to the car.
The lights of the chapel were added, and the lateral cove was changed a small piece with a little chromium that was aggregate within them. The grill kept the same glance, but a worse glance was spaced towards outside dándote one more. The board of instruments was readjusted a small piece, moving the gauges around, and a center console was added. Also, the energy was run into up to 290 horsepowers, helping to this new Corvette to jump to divide the zero for sixty inside under seven seconds. In 1959, the nonfunctional lights of the chapel were cleared, like the strips of chromium of the trunk, and along with some changes very of smaller importance in the interior, 1959 did not mark any true change for the Corvette.
60 years Corvette 1960 received a change to the end of the tail as well as some changes of the part of down to the suspension subsequent to the direction of the assistant. The horsepower was raised 315 is thankful again to an increasing quotient of the compression, lower models of the horsepowers still were available yet. 1961 brought to public the introduction of the standard crossed Corvette of the flags, on a silver bottom, and the extractor previously of bumper of the exit was moved underneath the car. The superior option of the motor still offered 315 horsepowers, and the manual of four speeds was the standard transmission, with an index of the taking of almost seventy percent. It was also in 1961 that the concept of the shark of the Mako XP-755 was constructed, that offered a glance in the future of the Corvette.
1962 offered an important change in the line of conduction. The motor of cubical inch 283 was cleared, and instead of another one a motor of cubical inch 327, with the high line construction of scale models 360 horsepowers with the injection of fuel and 11,25 to 1 quotient of the compression. This one was also the first year from 1955 that the lateral coves could not be requested in a color different from the rest of the body, but the clients could request their Corvettes with the wheels that matched the color of the body. This model also puts the first year that the model under was on four thousand dollars.