Rev up your holiday spirits and join us for a festive celebration at the Flint Corvette Club Christmas Party! It's time to gather, mingle, and revel in the joy of the season with fellow car enthusiasts. The Christmas Party promises an evening of camaraderie, laughter,...
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Corvette Reunion Gate Workers August 19, 2023
Subject: Gate worker sheet for August 19,2023 This is our 13th year, for this great event If you can take a time zone or 2 on the entrance gate respond to this email or call me 810 771.5760 Mari Jo also needs 2 people to help sell the shirts & hats etc on...
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The Corvette Name
Fast & Sleek Myron Scott, at the time Chevrolet's Chief photographer, is credited with coming up with the Corvette name, drawing from the small, fast warships of the "Corvette" class. The Jaguar XK120 is believed to have been the inspiration for the first...
Fiberglass Prototype for Corvette Planned
A Rush To the Show Robert Morrison had inherited a small fiberglass reinforced plastics factory in the early 50's. He met with GM purchasing agent Carl Klein on February 5, 1953 to talk about producing the Corvette parts in fiberglass. After meeting with Chevy...
Chevy Not Good Enough?
Chevrolet is shunned from GM Motorama 1953 was the first year the Corvette was produced, originally envisioned by Harley Earl, the Corvette was Chevy's first entrance in the 1953 GM Motorama. The GM Motorama was GM's "dream car" show and had been used in the past to...
The Corvette Logo
Billy gets inspiration for logo William Durant, the founder of GM, said a wallpaper pattern he saw in a Paris hotel in 1908 inspired the bow tie logo. Supposedly, he ripped off a small piece of it and brought it back to Detroit. Hood Emblem is Illegal? The original...