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The 5 Slowest Corvette to Ever Roll Off Of The Assembly Line

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America’s Sports Car Wasn’t Always Fast. Meet The Least Powerful & Slowest Corvettes Ever

The Corvette is synonymous with speed, performance, and agility. This is a fact which few can argue. Today’s C8 Corvettes are capable of reaching top-speeds of nearly 200 MPH while mustering sub-3.0 second 0-60 MPH times. These figures adequately represent the enormous performance potential that the Corvette exudes with every jab of the accelerator. However, America’s iconic sports car has not always been the fastest or most technically gifted vehicle on the block. On the contrary, the Corvette’s output was rather subdued during its infancy and again during the onset of modern emissions mandates in the 1970s. The following are the five slowest production Corvettes to ever roll off of the assembly line.

1953 Corvette Wallpapers

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