On this day in automotive history, the first production Corvette was built on June 30, 1953 in Flint, Michigan. Today we discuss the history and evolution "America's Sports Car", and its early relationship and competition with the Ford Thunderbird.
With Special Guest Brian Corey from automotivehistory.org
“Fuel for the Future” is presented by State Farm Insurance, Driven By America’s Automotive Trust, and hosted by Michael May.
https://www.americasautomotivetrust.org/
Produced by Convergent Content, LLC
Theme Music by Matt Glass
06/30/24 • 28 min
Fuel for the Future - This Day in Automotive History: First Corvette
Transcript
We're looking at June 30th, 1953, when the very first production Chevrolet Corvette came off the assembly line. This is an iconic day, obviously, for so many reasons, leading us to where we are today with the Corvette as this essentially an American supercar, right? But how did we get there? It's a long story. We're again joined today by Brian Corey from Automotive History Dot. Today we learned about the history of the Corvette and its fascinating relationship with th
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