Harley Earl Father of the Corvette Part2

To meet a triumphant country yearning for more of his distinctive new Corvette, Mr. Earl came up with another unique message all his own after the war years, thus, the Corvette was born. This bedrock American icon known as the Corvette did not come to reality by any work done by some white-haired Russian expatriate...like some strange group, starting many years after Harley Earl's death, would concoct and then spin into the equation leading the public into believing. Nor did any corporate GM committee ever have a say in the matter concerning its origin. That's because, while Mr. Earl was alive the Corvette was always his baby. Like many understated artists, he just never liked shouting it out. So of course, his low key nature went on to permit all sorts of false claims to come to pass after he was gone.

What's exciting today is that the most seminal moment - "the beginning" - behind the creation of America's only time honored sports car the Corvette  has not yet been revealed.

No doubt, this man's original story coming forward is going to launch the Corvette automobile's cult car status to an all-new level in the years following the fiftieth anniversary that took place in June, 2003.

It's virtually unheard of for any car to remain in continuous production for a half-century. During this span, more than one million two hundred thousand Corvettes have been built, with approximatly 900,000 still in existence. As many as 10 million people have had their lives intersect with a Corvette - they have either owned one or been married or closely related to a Corvette owner. Add in the millions more who have simply coveted a Corvette, and the Corvette fan base becomes larger than the population of some countries.

ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE INFO: "This is Chevrolet Corvette, a new type of American sports car originally shown at the General Motors Motorama of 1953. Only 33 inches high, it has a glass fiber reinforced plastic body. It's engine is basically a 1953 Chevrolet aluminum piston valve-in-head "Blue Flame" with increased compression ratio, triple side draft carburetors and in body