Corvettes

Everyone dreams of owning a beautiful all American sport car in a life time. The answer to that question is the Chevrolet Corvette.
The Corvette was first introduced to America in the early fifties. Harley Earl was hired at GM to create the latest designs for Chevrolet; he decided that after WWII America needed a sports car because all the soldiers returning had purchased many foreign cars and were bringing them to America where there was nothing to compete with them. This lead to a whole new plan to creating a new car; the first corvettes were simply almost like a normal corvette car and would not compete with any other sport car. The car was simply on a normal Chevy frame and had a 2speed automatic transmission. This car needed much more improvement and was about to be placed on the back shelf for later design until a woman, named Arkus-Duntov, introduced a three speed transmission with the V8 engine in 1955.
It was after this that the second generation of corvettes was born. The door is now back open for better and faster improvements to the car. In between the years 1963 and 1957 the C2 Sting Ray was introduced. This car had several improvements from the first generation. This was the decade when Chevrolet introduced the “Big Block Engine”, the car also had something else that had never been seen before, for example the side exhausts system, also the coupe version of the car was introduced making it a new and very collectable car in 1966.
Many more improvements were introduced from 1968 to 1982. In these years the engines were bigger and are still getting bigger till this day. The main thing that changed was the body style and GM wanted to keep it a secret but the release of the hot wheels toy car gave it away. This helped the interest by drawing people to the new and improved designs.
After researching just this much about these cars, I have really fallen in love with them. Just knowing that someone had taken the time to create en all American car to fulfill the American Dream. This shows that people can really do something if they just put their mind to it.