After the first fourteen or fifteen Chevy Corvette units were built at the Van Slyke Avenue location, production for the 1954 model year began in the renovated St. Louis facility in December 1953. The ...

Launched in 1953 at the Motorama, the first generation of the Corvette was not such a big hit in the beginning, but, later on, it became the most successful American sports car, and, later on, the C1 ...