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Industrial Vault General Motors Corvette facility, Flint Michigan, 1957. Building America’s first sports car—6,339 Corvettes with fiberglass bodies, fuel-injected V8s, and four-speed manuals. Complete process: HAND-LAID FIBERGLASS BODY CONSTRUCTION (workers applying resin-saturated mat in molds creating panels versus steel stamping, 350-pound body versus 600+ steel, enabling complex curves), panel trimming and bonding, two-seater sports car body, fiberglass painting in Venetian Red Cascade Green Aztec Copper Inca Silver Onyx Black (solid colors), thirteen-tooth chrome grille...
Industrial Vault General Motors Chevrolet plants, 1955-1957. Building Bel Air—1.5 million annually, America’s Golden Age icon with two-tone paint, chrome trim, and small block V8. Complete process: Steel stamping forming body panels with flowing 1950s lines and tail fins, body welding creating pillarless Sport Coupe hardtops, TWO-TONE PAINT in signature combinations (India Ivory over Onyx Black, Tropical Rose and Colonial Cream creating vivid displays, crisp color break lines defining 1950s styling), massive chrome trim...
