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Happy Birthday Corvette! America’s Favorite Sports Car Turns 60

Happy Birthday Corvette! America’s Favorite Sports Car Turns 60

In the early 1950′s, Harley Earl, GM’s head of styling, envisioned a low-cost American sports car that could compete with Europe’s Jaguar, MG and Ferrari. Codenamed “Opel”, the very first prototype made its debut in January 1953 at the GM Motorama show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The great reviews and pubic

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