The Chevrolet Corvette rolled out of Flint, Michigan in 1953 and has never stopped—eight generations, no domestic rivals left standing. It nearly didn't happen. Fiberglass over a 3.9-liter straight-six, two-speed automatic, Chevrolet's answer to the lean British roadsters of the postwar years—it debuted at GM's Motorama in the Waldorf-Astoria and promptly sold almost none of its 300 hand-assembled units. A quiet beginning for what would become America's sports car.
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The 1991 Corvette receives a light exterior refresh, with updated front and rear fascias and revised side louvers modernizing its profile. For 1992, a new 5.7-liter V-8—the LT1—arrives under the clamshell hood, delivering 300 horsepower and 330 lb-ft of torque, a gain of 50 horses over the outgoing L98. Traction control comes to standard across the lineup. That July, the one-millionth Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky: a white convertible with a red interior, a deliberate echo of the very first.
