Good morning.
Whitewater’s week ends with an eighty percent chance of showers and a high of seventy-six.
On this day in 1953, an automotive beginning:
…workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assemble the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would become an American icon. The first completed production car rolled off the assembly line two days later, one of just 300 Corvettes made that year.
The idea for the Corvette originated with General Motors’ pioneering designer Harley J. Earl, who in 1951 began developing plans for a low-cost American sports car that could compete with Europe’s MGs, Jaguars and Ferraris. The project was eventually code-named “Opel.” In January 1953, GM debuted the Corvette concept car at its Motorama auto show at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. It featured a fiberglass body and a six-cylinder engine and according to GM, was named for the “trim, fleet naval vessel that performed heroic escort and patrol duties during World War II.” The Corvette was a big hit with the public at Motorama and GM soon put the roadster into production.
Today’s anniversary of the Corvette is just the lead-in for the final day of Puzzability’s Assembly Line series.
Puzzability concludes its series about cars:
Assembly Line
This week—summer road trip! For each day, we’ll give you a series of clues, each of which leads to a word. You must drop one letter out of each of these answer words and put them together (in order), adding spaces as needed, to get the make and model of an old car.
Example:
Body’s energy important in acupuncture / penultimate word in many fairy tales / Hogwarts mail carrier / scraped into, as a pattern in glass / compete / large often-canvas bag
Answer:
Chevrolet Chevette (chi / ever / owl / etched / vie / tote)
Here’s the puzzle for Friday:
Work by O’Neill or Simon / lip-synched / large area of Northern Ireland that gave its name to an overcoat.