Chevrolet Corvette C6 It did get some upgrades to spice it up a little a three duce intake set up and by 54 some of the dealers The 53 was powered with Blue Flame 6 cylinder truck motor that proved to be underpowered for the Corvette. The first of the Corvettes were hand built with fiberglass bodies and standard Chevrolet parts. And a revolution started with the invention of fiberglass. A promising new product hit the market that was durable and could be shaped into ca car body without much trouble.
Chevrolet Corvette C6You see steel was still in short supply back in 1953 which sent the car designer looking for a new idea. The birth of the Chevrolet Corvette may not have happened had it not been for the War. Although a Classic beauty it was under powered with its 6 cylinder engine it almost fell by the wayside. In 1953 the first of the classic Corvettes hand built in Flint, Michigan named after a famous class War Ship the two door sports car was meant to be a gentlemen's sports car. North Korean torpedo from an attack submarine was believed to be the cause of its sinking. On 26 March 2010, it broke in two and sank near the sea border with North Korea.
Chevrolet Corvette C6 You may remember seeing in the news ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772) was a South Korean Pohang-class Corvette of the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), commissioned in 1989. Most modern Navies of the world include War Ships in the Corvette class in their fleets. Corvette is a French word given to (nautical, historical) a flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; In the modern navy, a lightly armed and armored blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of trans-oceanic duty. Chevrolet Corvette named after a War Ship you say?
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