Following the well-received unveiling of the EX-122 pre-production prototype at the General Motors Motorama in New York, January 1953, the C1 Corvette was hurried into production that same year.

Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64 became the most expensive Corvette of all time after selling for $7.7 million at auction.

The first-year 1953 Corvette is the scarcest, with only 300 made. How many are still around? Well, the C1 registry currently lists 181 known survivors, but many of them are in poor condition or ...

Introduced in 1953, the Chevrolet Corvette was almost axed after only two years due to low sales. Chevrolet's introduction of the small-block V8 engine in 1955 eventually saved the sports car.