Chevrolet’s first production sports car, introduced in 1953, was the Corvette.
The Corvette debuted as a two-seat convertible at the 1953 General Motors Motorama in New York City. Its body used fiberglass-reinforced plastic, helping Chevrolet create a lightweight sports car without the tooling required for a steel body.
The first-generation Corvette is commonly called the C1. Early cars used a six-cylinder engine rather than a V8, and all 1953 examples were finished in Polo White with a red interior. Production took place in Flint, Michigan.
The Corvette is sometimes confused with the Chevrolet Camaro, but the Camaro arrived later, for the 1967 model year, as a four-seat pony car. Corvette has remained Chevrolet’s dedicated two-seat sports-car line.