Happy birthday Corvette!

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It doesn’t happen too often that a concept car becomes reality and it doesn’t happen all too often that a concept car becomes a big hit that lasts decades and decades. But it did happen to the Corvette that was launched on this day in 1953. The Corvette had in fact been a ‘dream car’ that was shown at GM’s travelling Motorama display at the grand Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York (this is a fascinating picture of it, click it up to see it bigger) and was such a hit there, that General Motors decided to get it ready for production.

And so, on June 30, 1953, the first production Corvette, chassis number 001, rolled from the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. Tony Kleiber, a body assembler on the line drove it off at the time. Just 300 Corvettes were built in ’53, all of them white convertibles with red interiors and black soft tops, making them the most sought after Corvette model now. The Corvette remains of course the number one American sports car. Or do you think different?

(Words editor, picture Corvettepride.com)


 

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