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The First Corvette Something Else in Disguise
By Elizabeth Miller
Summary: The sputtering start for one of America's most-cherished sports cars.
It all began with the Alfas, Ferraris and Jags that grabbed Harley Earl's fancy at a September 1951 sports car race and wouldn't let go. From that day forward he was driven to design an American sports car and, as General Motors' chief stylist, he had the horsepower to make it happen.
Earl put Bob McLean to work on the layout and only seven months later Earl's team had built a full-size plaster model. During this time, the prototype of a fiberglass-bodied Chevrolet convertible suffered so little damage in an accident during testing that fiberglass became the choice for GM's new American...
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