1951 September General Motors' chief stylist Harley Earl takes the Le Sabre dream car to the Watkins Glen sports car race. Earl is impressed by the small European sports cars, and decides to begin designing a new American sports car.Thus starts Ken Polsson's excellent, thoroughly detailed history of the evolution of the quintessential American sports car, the Chevrolet Corvette. The entire Corvette chronology can be found athttp://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vettehis/
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