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First Hand-Made Sports car in US: 1953

A quick glance at America's first hand made sports car:
The Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1...
Last of its kind to leave the assembly line...April 24th, 1995...
The 1953 Corvette featured a Powerglide automatic transmission and a "Blue Flame" six cylinder 235ci 150 hp engine with three carburetors and dual exhaust...View photo stream
" Video (below) "The days when producing a classic was part of the American dream."
Today corvettes are built exclusively at a General Motors assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky; where the National Corvette Museum is located.
About: The 1st Chevrolet Corvette rolled off production line on June 30, 1953, at the GM plant in Flint, Michigan. Only 300 Corvettes were built that year (each of them by hand), making this the rarest Corvette. The first all-American sports car built by an American car manufacturer; each fiberglass-bodied two-seater was white with a red interior & black canvas top.
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Today's Auto Industry: I'm for reinvigorating the auto industry by providing incentives for the domestic production of advanced- technology and alternative-fuel vehicles and their key components! America can improve our energy concerns by reducing our reliance on fossil reserves, and at at the same time improve our environment by reducing emissions; without further harm to its Workers!

Quick Auto industry News...
Early April ruling: US Supreme Court decides CO2 is a pollutant
Is the New Direction to insist that companies provide a scientific basis for refusing to correct man's effect on global climate change?#
How will this effect tens of thousands of workers?
Vermont battles: estimated cost of $114 billion.An analysis by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it would cost the auto industry $114 billion to comply with today's plan between 2010 and 2017, including $85 billion for Detroit's Big Three. That proposal would bring fuel economy mandates to about 34 mpg by 2017 for cars -- far below the California mandate.
Kerkorian eyes Chrysler employee buyout group "The workers already have everything invested in that company today, including their jobs and their pensions," Canadian A. W. President Buzz Hargrove, told trade publication Automotive News. #
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