1953 Chevrolet Corvette C1 ImagesThe outer body was made out of a revolutionary new composite material called Taking its name from the corvette, a small, maneuverable fighting frigate the credit for the naming goes to Myron Scott, the first Corvettes were virtually handbuilt in Flint, Michigan in Chevrolet's Customer Delivery Center, now an academic building at Kettering University. The original Corvette emblem incorporated an American flag into the design, this was later dropped, since associating the flag with a product was frowned upon. The result was the 1953 Corvette, unveiled to the public at that year's Motorama car show.
Images for 1953 Chevrolet Corvette C1Earl convinced GM that they needed to build a two seat sports car. 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. What Henry Ford did for automobile manufacturing principles, Harley Earl did for car design. It was not until 1927, when General Motors hired designer Harley Earl, that automotive styling and design became important to American automobile manufacturers.
Design 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 is the first generation of Chevrolet Corvettes built and marketed by Chevrolet. The Chevrolet Corvette C1 is a sporty automobile produced from 1953 through 1962.
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