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In 1960 GM was not officially affiliated with any of the teams, but for the first time Corvette was on the grid and GM commissioned a short documentary to be filmed. The #3 Corvette persevered and took 1st in class.
A General Motors film that delves into how a car goes from a clay model to being mass produced. We see how designers and engineers take drawings turn them into clay mock ups and translate it into the tooling that will stamp steel and determine how all the steel, glass, rubber, fabrics and more will be turned into a brand new automobile. We also see how these cars are put through their paces on...
Hot Rod | CAR PROFILES Early Corvette Prototype Not Seen Since 1954 Harley Earl’s...
Archive, here is the 1984 Chevrolet Corvette
Rick Corvette Conti Sharing a FUN and interesting video, the making of a TV spot involving Corvette for the Super Bowl. FLASH BACK FRIDAY..
Firebird III was an experimental car that GM hoped would “startle even Buck Rogers.” It was one of the jet age inspired Dream Cars that were conjured up in GM’s Design staff under the direction of legendary designer, Harley Earl. It was the third Firebird and it looked at a future without steering wheels and a bubble toped canopy right out of — well a fighter jet. Its fins were also in keeping with...
GM’s Motorama exhibit in 1956 featured a film that looked into the far distant future of 1976 with predicted a jet age future with electronic digital displays and an On Star like central command that would guide us along our uncrowded path to adventures.
See how America’s sports car went from a country-club cruiser to a performance icon. BY GREG FINK JUL 22, 2019 CAR AND DRIVER Chevrolet was in a sales slump in the early 1950s, and like many within the bow-tie division’s ranks, brand manager Thomas Keating was eager to reverse course. His solution? Ordering up a sports car for General Motors’ bread-and-butter nameplate. Produced under the code name Project Opel, the sports car was a distinctly American take...
Ryan Sardachuk This has nothing to do with Corvettes but it’s a great Chevrolet story and artist rendition. The Life Story Of A 1970 Chevy Chevelle (Part 1 of 40) November 5th, 1969, GM Assembly Plant of Flint Michigan: Workers are hurrying to manufacture brand new 1970 Chevrolet Chevelles, a car that will soon become an American automotive Icon. A car that’ll be worth a fortune in just a few decades, but at this...
General Motors, like all the other car manufacturers of the time, did not put...
Jim Smart EditorJul 29, 2019 In 1953, who would have believed that an American automaker—known more for great styling rather than road-going, canyon-cutting performance—would give the world an exciting two-seat sports car. American automakers in the post war period introduced fresh and exciting models erected on new underpinnings with updated sheetmetal and creature comforts. In the early 1950s, Chevrolet had its eye on building a fierce competitor to European sports cars. European sports cars were enjoying...
A little background: From 1964 to 1967, Corvette bodies were actually built at two locations – half at the St. Louis factory and half under contract with A.O. Smith in Ionia, Mich. Some experts say there were a few A.O. Smith 427 bodies in the first week or two or production, including this one that was built in Ionia, Mich., at A.O. Smith and shipped to St. Louis for assembly as a 1967 Corvette....
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