Chevrolet Corvette 1953 - car classics

Chevrolet Corvette 1953

At first model of the Corvette was sold not very good, but GM continued to produce and offer. She debuted at the auto show, GM Motorama in 1954, and production began later in the same year, all the cars produced of white color. In 1954, it was possible to buy model are several colors and the car also became more powerful. Corvette became the first production car in the world, made of fiberglasa, and it was a bold step. In the lower part there has been a separate steel chassis with a Phillips communication, which adds strength along with a single cast of the bottom. Also new in the corvettes were leaf springs, established for the levers of the chassis. Inline six-cylinder engine taken from the model with a body of type В«sedanВ», and when he went under the name of Blue Flame Special it used camshaft with increased Cams for greater lifting the valve, a higher compression ratio, modified gun and double valve springs, to cope with a large number of revolutions of the motor. In 1954 production models just was not stopped, but saved her small V-shaped eight-cylinder engine.