HISTORY MATTERS

January 16 to January 31

America’s first gasoline powered automobile appeared in 1893. Sixty years later, the Chevrolet Corvette ambushed the markets with a sports car that snatched a devoted following that entices tens of thousands of buyers annually.

According to History.com, “in the early 1950s, Harley Earl (1893-1969), the influential head designer for GM, then the world’s largest automaker, bec…