This has been bugging me for awhile.....
The C2-3 emblems are designed with the flag on the right side. They changed with the C4 and up to have the flag on the left side.
WHY??????????
Because I sure dont know, but there has to be a reason.

 

Anybody?????????????????

 

Ummmmm......cause they wanted to?

 

Ok..look..
Everything to do with the Corvette has happened for a reason. I checked everywhere about this but the only thing I found was the decision to remove the U.S. flag, and the story behind the "fleur" design and reason..Damn..it was french too...
Other than "cause they wanted too", I thought maybe it had to do with racing heritage being first or something to that effect.
Hey...I was just wondering/

 

I have noticed this and wondered about it, too but have never heard it discussed by anybody who knew the answer. I just believe that when they started building the C4s, it was such a different car from any that had gone before that Chevrolet decided to change the flag positions as well to symbolize an all-new car.
I have also felt that each flag represents something and, together, they make a statement. The red flag with the bowtie represents Chevrolet. The checkered flag represents the winner. So, on the 1953-1982s, the complete emblem would mean "Chevrolet is the winner". On 1984-2008s, it should mean "The winner is Chevrolet".
Regardless of the actual reason, I have always felt the Corvette crossed-flags emblem was the best-looking one that any car has ever used. Period!

 

I had heard that was done because they moved to the Bowling Green plant.

 

They had moved to the Bowling Green plant during the 1981 model year so that doesn't add up.

 

I don't think they would have designed a new logo for just two model years so they probably waited for the next gen to make the change. But who knows. At least I have a good question to ask next time there's a Corvettes at Carlisle tech seminar with a Corvette engineer.

 

Who knows? This may have just been an error caused by a dyslexic employee!

 

 

Like mine with Amerian flag

 

Simple. They finally hired a left handed designer.

 

Read somewhere that you are not allowed to incorporate the US Flag in a company logo. I guess when they started, it looked like a good idea and no one noticed. Later the lawyers probably said "oh s__t !, er...just change it quietly".

 

Any military people here????????? Putting on your brass - the US is always right.

 

I got this same answer a long time ago from a worker at the BG plant. First time I was ever there was with a friend and his uncle. The unc was picking up his new vette.
Well, unc asked one of the guys why there was no flag in his emblem, and that's the answer he got. True, false, who knows. But, it does sounds plausible, being that there are MANY laws involving our nations flag that no one knows about.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

That is true I have a few hard cover Corvette history books and the American flag can not be used. Why they switched sides...still a mystery

 

It's a checkered flag, always has been. The other side is the crest and emblem flag.

The crest went from three lines under it in the first two years to one line under it at C3, C4 killed the crest, used only the emblem and was the only one to drop flags. C5 restore the crest with one line under it. The logo on NCM uses only three lines under the crest.


Here ya go:

The original Corvette logo was designed by Robert Bartholomew, an interior designer at Chevrolet in 1953. This emblem was destined to appear on the 1953 Corvette prototype which was introduced to the public for the first time at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel in January of 1953. It had crossing staffs with the checkered flag on the right hand side, and the American flag on the left hand side. However, four days before the Corvette was to go on display at the show, Chevrolet management decided that it should be redesigned. The problem with the proposed emblem was that it included the American flag which is illegal to use on a commerical product. Right before the show, redesigned emblems were attached to the front hood and steering wheel of the Corvette. The new emblem contained the checkered flag on the right side as well as the white racing flag, red Chevrolet bow-tie symbol and a fleur-de-lis (flower of the lilly).

repost from CAC

 

That is correct. At least thats how our honor guard does it.

 

I heard, it has something to do with space aliens

 

Well here's another story on flipping the logo...
Supposedly, the company producing the emblem flipped the slide for the final proof for the new emblem, putting the flags on the opposite sides. There were quite a few produced and put on cars before the mistake was caught and production managers decided to leave it alone considering all the other headaches to overcome producing the new models at a new plant. This is a plausible explaintion if you have ever done any production work.