In 1981, General Motors started producing the prestigious Corvette in Bowling Green, and the plant has been the Corvette’s exclusive home for more than thirty years. The Corvette, often referred to as “America’s sports car,” is the epitome of invention. The longest-running, continually built passenger automobile in the world is the Corvette. More than 60 years ago, the first Corvette left the factory and became an iconic vehicle.
But Kentucky wasn’t always home to Corvette. The first 300 Corvettes were hand-built in Flint, Michigan in 1953, following General Motors’ introduction of the vehicle as a “dream car” at the Motorama exhibition held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. The production was moved to St. Louis the next year. June 1981 saw the shift in Corvette manufacturing from
In 1981, General Motors started producing the prestigious Corvette in Bowling Green, and the plant has been the Corvette’s exclusive home for more than thirty years. The Corvette, often referred to as “America’s sports car,” is the epitome of invention. The longest-running, continually built passenger automobile in the world is the Corvette. More than 60 years ago, the first Corvette left the factory and became an iconic vehicle.
But Kentucky wasn’t always home to Corvette. The first 300 Corvettes were hand-built in Flint, Michigan in 1953, following General Motors’ introduction of the vehicle as a “dream car” at the Motorama exhibition held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. The production was moved to St. Louis the next year. June 1981 saw the shift in Corvette manufacturing from
In 1981, General Motors started producing the prestigious Corvette in Bowling Green, and the plant has been the Corvette’s exclusive home for more than thirty years. The Corvette, often referred to as “America’s sports car,” is the epitome of invention. The longest-running, continually built passenger automobile in the world is the Corvette. More than 60 years ago, the first Corvette left the factory and became an iconic vehicle.
But Kentucky wasn’t always home to Corvette. The first 300 Corvettes were hand-built in Flint, Michigan in 1953, following General Motors’ introduction of the vehicle as a “dream car” at the Motorama exhibition held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. The production was moved to St. Louis the next year. June 1981 saw the shift in Corvette manufacturing from St. Louis to Bowling Green, Kentucky.