Throttle-Back Thursday: Upbeat 63rd birthday to the Chevrolet Corvette!

C1 Corvette creation commenced June 30, 1953 

On June 30, 1953, 63 years prior today, the main generation Corvettes moved down Chevrolet's Stone, Michigan sequential construction system. This specific American execution adventure began sufficiently basic: You could just get the little fiberglass sportsters in white (over a red inside) with a 235 cubic-inch "Blue Fire" inline-six and a Powerglide programmed transmission in advance. 

Only 300 to a great extent hand-fabricated examples developed before the end of the inaugural year, however after a couple changes the marque picked up energy from that point - and quick. A V8 motor for 1955 was trailed by a showy styling redesign the following year; meanwhile, creation had moved to St. Louis, where it stayed until the change to the Vette's present home of Knocking down some pins Green, Kentucky, in 1981. 

The article we're including today doesn't exactly proclaim the landing of the Vette; Rivalry Press wasn't around in '53. Rather, this is a glance back at "past times worth remembering" of American games autos ... from 1977. When it was penned, the Corvette nameplate hadn't hit the 25-year benchmark, however we assume that in the grim post-Oil Ban years those halcyon days of joyful top-down cruising more likely than not appeared quite a while back for sure. 

Still, it just demonstrates that the "recollect path back when autos were truly autos?" line has been jogged out for a very long time now. Perused on underneath; the article is a glance back at the main Corvettes, as well as a large portion of the '50s biggest car hits - from Mercury Expressway Cruisers to Crosleys to wild ideas. Simply the thing to get you in the cruising state of mind with Woodward coming soon!

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