"The History of the Corvette" It all started in September of 1951, when General Motors chief stylist Harley Earl took a ride to Watkins Glen sports car race. He was impressed with the Jaguars, Ferraris and Alfas, which made him decide to begin designing a new American sports car. Later on that year he assigns Bob McLean to draw a layout for a sports car for General Motors. 1952 arrives and the first plaster model two-seater convertible …showed first 75 words of 2977 total…

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