The First Corvette -- 1953 Corvette 

Amen and Amen.

Hans delbruck53, also me August.

@@georgewielosik1567 You beat me by 3 months.

And my husband

77's still aren't worth much

lol classy tho

I would use another word for this long opening

They wanted to build up the anticipation.

+WD40W Thanks for sharing. A great era for classic American cars.

no only the same drive train but the same frame , i don't see any mention in most of these videos about that, they shortened the 53 and 54 chevy passenger car frame to use for the chassis.

WD40W They had two different Sixes depending on whether the car had manual or automatic transmissions. The automatics has hydraulic valve lifters and the manuals had mechanical valve lifters and slightly less horse power. My folks owned a 1953 Two Ten two door sedan with manual transmission. When I got old enough to drive in 1964 I learned to drive in it.

i am wonder what a revers rear sail pilar is.

Thank you, Edward, my comment above was a question whether it was Dave Garroway or Gary Moore. You cleared it up for me.

Steve Allen was the first host of the Tonight Show. I don't even know who hosts it nowadays 😕

But Dave Garroway was dull as dishwater.

@@glennso47 Jimmy Fallon.

Split window🙂

Thank you for the confirmation.

+Anthony Forti this is definitely the best corvette of all times, the second best model of corvette is c2 convertible I think

Yes, and it would have been under the Corvette script, not above it on the production car.

far from the first attempt, a little auto history will show several people did a pretty good job with the glass cars before corvette and along the same time also. kaiser and muntz were just two that come to mind quick, some boat company built bodys for another company, and kurtis i believe did the muntz body for the madman, who also was responsible for the original tape player for cars, he made a 4 track player before the lear jet guy built the 8 track, i have one with several tapes sitting in my bedroom right now.

Aaaak! Puddles in the light at 9:56, not 9:36.

This is the actual Motorama car., not a production car. Hand built in a hurry. That it leaks everywhere is kind of a surprise tho since it has a regular production motor.

I’m a senior citizen and I still can’t have one. But then I have never wanted a Corvette. I don't even want a Chevy nowadays. They are synonymous with junk.

They still used the railroads to move the majority of the freight back then, not nearly the number of big trucks destroying the roads like we have now.

I'm sorry.

Good observation. I hadn't noticed because I was watching his smile and the scenery go by... Most cars of that era had "Worm and Roller" steering, not the more precise "Rack and Pinion", so lots of play on center. I suspect this car was very worn, and the steering box could probably have been adjusted for wear to reduce some of that looseness.

Most Americans like some play on center of steering... who wants to drive a car that darts off the road with the slightest twitch of the steering wheel hand? Ditto for the soft, floaty ride of older cars... who wants to be beat up by the end of long trip? '53 Corvettes were new when this was made in 1953, so I doubt the steering was worn out...

Not even remotely.

you mean the other way around. this was a 1953 Corvette, so the Imperial tail lights was taken from the 53 Vette

No. They wouldn’t let me drive the choo choo train 🚂😭

I caught the Corvette fever when I was young I have a supercharged C7 Z51 with a manual transmission the C8 has gotten me kind of interested I would like to see it with a manual transmission I'm not in the market for a C8 right now I think they have some bugs to be dealt with first

I always wondered How anybody bigger than 5.5 could see out the window, That is what I thought !!!

I would take one in a heart beat to🙂

Seats and/or floorpans were too high in the early ones, IMHO. Looks like they're in a booster seat. Love the styling of the '53, it's always been my favorite. Don't like the modern ones and I ovn a C4, can't stand the new 2021.

160 HP from a straight six in the early 50's was respectable

Had GM just did it right the first time with the corvair, Vega, citation, 350 diesel and so on. GM would still be that great superpower and perhaps the bankruptcy would've never happened. The mark of excellence used to mean something

Probably Grosse Pointe.

The observatory looks like the one in Goldengate Park in San Fransisco

Obviously there is.

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No FI until 1957. No Blue Flame 6 got FI.

@@jhsfiftyonefifty4060 it long time agoas a

Yes, that's him!!!

Well, a horse is capable of a max of 14.9 horsepower, and 14.9 times 41 is 610.9, so if that's what he meant, then it would make sense. But that's probably not how he was thinking

We all knew a kid like that!

Oh yah, and your alien plastic sleek computer today is sooo much better well designed. What the hell are you making fun of? Like today's some representation of design.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar It was good natured ribbing...I like C1s.

@@saxongreen78 I like people who don't think testing a vehicle 68 years after its debut, is a fair accurate comparison, after it's engines rotted through 1953 to now 2021. Unless you so called tested it in 1954-55-56-57-58-59-60 only, then I don't need, want, or care to think your intelligent enough to leave a crib to tell me what engine you think works better. I had a Corvette from 1953, and my neighbor across the ways did as well, It went up to 130 miles per hour, we would take the automobile out on the beach line, always empty, and drive it down blazing through. People could easily drive fast in the 1950's, we just didn't need to, because we don't want to die. Isn't that a funny thought, now your Tesla can go 300 apparently although I know their bluffing by at least 80 miles more, and it would turn the passengers into bloody strands by 90 miles per hour. We had trouble crushing both British and American sedans in the 1960's, they had strong hard frames, and a softer metal bending in the front and back of the car. Gave the machine a difficult attempt to smash them from either side, let alone smashing elevator style (down). Solid concrete filled roofing. I've seen a 90 mile per hour 1951 Oldsmobile crash....it wasn't even horrific, they would be safe in the passenger compartment it's just the force of still going 90, into your dashboard that killed the cat. Stop believing what the internet forces down your gullible throat about what's safer and faster. Speed killed the curiosity of the cat, not the curiosity.

A boat builder made the first fibreglas sports cars earlier using a Jeep frame...

BuzzLOLOL uh the corvette was a type of ship,,thats the corvette,,, now you know

Machine Gun Nest The first Saturn cars. Weren't they made of fiberglass or some sort of plastic?

@@glennso47 Yes, I have my second one. No noticable rust. Lol

It's not even plastic? What kind of half assed attempt at a weak observation was that. God I hope you hit a tree knowing someone that stupid exists named you.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Sounds like you have a ridiculous engine and transmission, too.

@@northerniltree how is the engine ridiculous. Clearly you just don't like the 1950's, so your getting another one of your being a bitch boners so that you may ruin the day once again

oh yeah theres a household name

#1 The father of the corvette is Zora arkus duntov from Belgium. #2 corvette beat ferraris often. look it up. #3 LS swapping is what people do.

@@blarg539 harley earl is the father of the corvette according to the Corvette National Museum it was his idea🤷‍♂️

@@blarg539 LS's everywhere but the 327 was my favorite

+Thomas L Not sure I'd agree it was ugly but it wasn't very sporty for a sports car.

those cars come alive visually when there moving...yess .. yes they are cool as ice

Wow...Ugliest? Talk about disrespect 👎

The '63 and '53 are the best Corvettes.