Corvette’s National Holiday is This Week

Get Ready to  Celebrate “National Corvette Day” on June 30th and “Drive Your Corvette to Work Day” on July 1st, 2022!

Did you know that the Corvette has its own, official, NATIONAL holiday?

National Corvette Day

Each year, on June 30th, or “National Corvette Day,” Corvette owners around the world celebrate the day the very first Corvette drove off the assembly line in 1953 – on June 30, 1953, to be exact.  On June 30, 1953, the first of three hundred 1953 Corvettes rolled off the original Corvette assembly line, which was (for its first year of production) located in Flint, Michigan.  By the time production began on the 1954 model year, production had been re-homed to St. Louis, Missouri, where it remained until 1981, where it was re-homed a third and (we hope) final time to Bowling Green, Kentucky.  The Bowling Green plant, which was formerly a Chrysler air-conditioning factory, has remained the sole manufacturing facility to build Corvettes for the past 39 years.

The Corvette has become one of the most iconic sports cars of all time, with millions of examples built in the 69 years since its launch.  To commemorate the Corvette as one of the most significant milestones in American automotive history, the House of Representatives enacted a resolution on June 26, 2008, officially proclaiming June 30th as “National Corvette Day.”   The proclamation reads as follows: