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1953 Corvette Production Numbers

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1953 Corvette Production Volumes

In 1953, a total of 300 Corvettes were produced. The first Corvette came off the assembly line on June 30, 1953.  The first two were destroyed as they were engineering test cars. This is still the rarest of all model year production Corvettes. It is estimated that less than two hundred 1953 Corvettes still exist.

Read more: 1953 Corvette Research Center.

1953 Production Volumes by Model Variant

Of those cars, 300 were all convertibles since that was the only body style in 1953.

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1953 Production Volumes by RPO Codes & Colors

Below, we have broken out the 1953 Corvette production builds by RPO codes and options so you can see how popular or rare certain options were. The production volumes are broken out by domestic coupe and domestic convertible builds. As you would expect the list of options in 1953 was pretty short.

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