Corvette: An American Dream

The Corvette, America’s sports car, known to car nuts around the world as the sleek and powerful Vette wasn’t always the king of the road. If you were to look at the streets of America back in the early fifties you would see automobiles that looked like giant palaces rather then the cars we are used to these days. (Corvette: An American Classic 2) These cars at the time were what the public seemed to want. There were really no complaints from them but the designers and engineers of the day wanted to build something different. The different car they wanted was a sports car, at this time only made by the Europeans. These cars were much smaller and more visual appealing to the eye. Most of them were way underpowered compared to the huge American cars we had, but on a curvy road a sports car could run rings around the American models.
Nothing came of the want of these cars until Harley Earl, top designer at giant General Motors decided he wanted a crack at the development of this so ...