The Chevy Corvette: The Only Sports Car

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Something really interesting about the Chevy Corvette that I bet you didn’t know is that in 1959 it was the only sports car in production in all of America! According to my source, Fiftiesweb.com, the Chevy Vette was the only one in production at the time in the entire country. And starting in the 1960s, the car still had the same design it had in the previous year, so nothing really changed. Maybe Chevrolet was waiting to release something new for the later years in the 1960s, being a car company with the first sports car in production they had to have a lot of plans for the car. It’s 1963 and guess what, the Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray is reborn! How? Well let me tell you, Chevy decided to add a new and very stylish split rear window. In

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