1953 Corvette

Preliminary Owners Manual

This is the temporary 1953 Corvette owners manual that was given to new Corvette buyers, until the regular manuals complete with illustrations was printed and ready for distribution.

1953 Corvette Owners Manual

This is the first original Corvette owners manual, scanned from our vintage original manual collection.

Manual of Building Plastic Cars

1954 Motor Trend Books

Many fiberglas cars were being built in the 40's and 50's, as was already evident at the 1951 Motorama. Contemporary to the new Chevrolet Corvette were; Glaspar, Wildfire, Stardust, Vale Sports, La Saetta, Skorpion, and Convair. You can read about all these in this manual.

The Corvette had 61 plastic body parts with the floor section weight of only 75 pounds. The photo used on the cover was taken by a General Motor photographer for publicity.

This manual is one of the best resources we have on the construction of the first Corvette. Browse a Working Manual of Building Plastic Cars from 1954.

Introducing Corvette

This Chevrolet film, "They Call Her Corvette", introduced the new Chevrolet Corvette. Run time is just over three minutes.

1953 Corvette Brochure

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