Iron County Record | 1953-07-23 | Page 9 | Plastic, Fibre Glass Body Featured in New Sports Car

Plastic, Fibre Glass Body Featured In New Sports Car The American Automobile industry's in-dustry's first production sports car with a plastic laminated fiber fi-ber glass body was completed this week as the first Chevrolet Corvette came off the line of the Chevrolet Flint assembly plant. T. H. Keating, Chevrolet general gen-eral manager, announced that the factory list price of the Corvette Cor-vette would be $3,250 including a 1953 Powerglide automatic transmission as standard equipment. equip-ment. Thus Chevrolet answered the two top questions most often asked by some four million persons per-sons who have seen two experimental experi-mental models of the Corvette at the GM Motoramas and other special events at which it has been shown since January. They wanted most of all to know when Chevrolet would start production and how much the Corvette would cost. "The engineers want to keep on testing these first cars for a few thousand more miles, but it may bo most important to Chevrolet's Chev-rolet's future plans to learn the amazing flexibility that it demonstrated dem-onstrated here in working out ned design ideas in plastics," Mr. Keating stated. Thij new type American sports car is only 33 inches hih. It is powered with a stepped-up Chevrolet Chev-rolet 19.13 "Blue Flame" engine, and 1953 Powerglide automatic transmission. The production Corvette, like the show cars that have been on tour, is a two-seater painted white, with a red cockpit, and other trim in red and chrome. It is 70 inches wide, 1G7 inches long on a 193-inch wheelbase, and has a curb weight of approximately 2900 pounds.