Celebrating 70 years of Corvette
Dear Classic American, Corvette – America’s sports car − is celebrating its 70th year of production in 2023. Production started at Flint, Michigan in 1953 with the first 300 cars – all white 1953 model year cars − being built by hand. Production proper started in 1954 at the St Louis plant and continued there until 1981 when production moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky which is still where all Corvettes are built to this day.
The first two years of Corvettes produced all featured a ‘blue flame’ inline six-cylinder engine which was replaced with a V8 from the 1955 model year; to this day all Corvettes have always featured this iconic engine configuration. From the beginning in 1953 until the end of the C7 model production in 2019 all Corvettes featured a front engine rear-wheel-drive configuration. The current C8 model launched in 2020 features a mid-mounted V8 and from the 2022 model year the cars
