The C1 Corvette.

Conceptually and dimensionally a copy of the Jaguar XK120.

The first Corvette is a dream car with a fiberglass body at the GM Motorama held in January 1953 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. Styled by the Chevrolet design studio of Clare MacKichan, the C1 is conceptually (and even dimensionally) a copy of the Jaguar XK120.

It features a 150-hp in-line-six engine and a two-speed automatic transmission, plus a wraparound windshield cribbed from the 1938 Hispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia.

The face-lifted 1956 C1 gets a dramatic door cove cribbed from a Pininfarina-styled Ferrari.

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/2014-chevrolet-corvette/

Dodger Stadium road races? They were in the parking lot, and a lot of Vettes, Cobras, and Porsche participated

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there is a very large gallery of photos in the Henry Ford Flikr page, drawn from the Dave Friedman collection held at the Benson Ford Research Center. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/sets/72157628625088167/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/sets/72157628625088167/

http://www.davemacdonald.net/gallery/closeups/cobra289firstwin.htm  for a gallery from the driver of the #198 Cobra 

it must have been good to be a client of Bill Mitchell in 1964

GM design chief Bill Mitchell built a series of Corvette “styling cars” for VIP clientele as a way of testing the waters on various design details.

It’s rumored that as many as 15 such cars were built, making them especially rare today. This particular car has wire-spoke wheels, uniquely designed sidepipes, and a vanity mirror built into the passenger-side sun visor.

http://www.automobilemag.com/news/pinehurst-concours/?_wcsid=E78D1541CFA240A187D50AAB9F2A35C5E12D67CB2705CB64

I bet this one was another

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/05/63-vette-cool-exhaust.html

just how long ago was 1963? Look at the wear on this split window Vette and you'll know it was a LONG damn time ago, and this car seems to have seen a lot of use since then

Hitler learns the old man Corvette beats his beloved but overpriced lousy Porsche - hilarious

Grand Sport Corvette at the 1967 24 hours of Daytona (that hood... busiest one I've ever seen!)

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Someone finally gave up trying to collect every busted and broken old Corvette, and now they are going to auction

Some are bad, some are fine. It's a big ol bunch of Vettes and parts (Boxes of radios, valve covers, steering wheels, rims, etc) getting tossed on the auction block, see them at
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=109250&campaign=americanauctioneersapr16_release_pitchcatalog&utm_campaign=americanauctioneersapr16_release_pitchcatalog

there are boxes of NOS parts too, tires, batteries, oil filters, etc

thunderation

https://www.facebook.com/Alte-Bilder-aus-vergangenen-Tagen-f%C3%BCr-Autofans-1476668465925600/?fref=photo

the Romac dragster Vette

https://www.facebook.com/Alte-Bilder-aus-vergangenen-Tagen-f%C3%BCr-Autofans-1476668465925600/?fref=photo

Pace car Corvette

https://revslib.stanford.edu

the Cunningham Corvettes at Le Mans

https://revslib.stanford.edu

Petrolicious documents the Kelly Corvette

It was at the Art Center College of Design Pasadena in 2014

did someone win these 1969 Chevies? Or were these contests fixed, and no one ever won the cars?

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2009 Corvette ZR1 Breaks Nissan GT-R's Lap Record

Corvette Chief Engineer, Tadge J. Juechter has official broken the news of the upcoming 2009 Corvette ZR1 posting the fastest ever production car lap time around the Nurburgring. ZR1 now beats the 2009 Nissan GT-R's impressive record of 7:29 with its faster laptime of 7:26.4, as verified by the onboard datalogging and two hand-held stopwatches.

Here's what Juechter wrote on GMNext blog: "This morning (Friday June 27), General Motors development engineer Jim Mero drove the Corvette ZR1 around the Nürburgring in a time of 7:26.4. Jim commented after the lap that conditions were good except for a strong headwind down the main straight and that the lap was solid, but he felt there were a few places he could have gone faster." Now this indicate towards GM's intention of further improving the lap time and thus make things more difficult for upcoming 2011 Honda/Acura NSX and Toyota LF-A.

Giving out further details, Juechter clarified that the ZR1 that lapped the Ring was instock trim with no change in engine calibrations and it wore the production cars Michelin Pilot Sport 2’s tires. The chassis alignment and vehicle height were set to factory specs and the fuel used was the standard pump (not racing) gas. The only additional devices used were the communications and safety equipment.

To put an end to all possible speculation, Juechter wrote: "The vehicle was exactly like the cars that will be built in Bowling Green, Kentucky and sold around the world later this summer."

An in-car official video will be posted in the week of July 7 when the ZR1 engineering team returns from Germany. But rather waiting till then you can checkout BridgeToGantry's short spy video below that gives you glimpses of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 lapping the Ring. Hope you won't miss the sweet humming of ZR1's supercharged V8.