Ed and Teresa Foss of Roanoke, Ind., owners of the 1953 Corvette Chassis #003 (the earliest existing Corvette chassis) donated their educational cutaway utilizing the chassis to the Museum. The fully functional vehicle was built explicitly for educational and display purposes and shows the inner workings of a 1953. The project was more than two years in the making by noted Corvette restorer Kevin Mackay and his staff at Corvette Repair in Valley Stream, N.Y.
The chassis was discovered in the mid-70s under the body of a 1955 Corvette that was being restored. The first three Corvettes were built on June 30, 1953, likely rolling off the assembly line in Flint, MI on July 1, 1953. Traveling to the GM Tech Center in Warren, MI where it was used for durability testing, the #003 car’s chassis reappeared in 1983, and later wound up on eBay in 2012, which is when Ed Foss acquired it.
The Gateway remodel began in January 2019 and was completed just in time for the Michelin NCM Bash festivities, an event held annually the last weekend of April. The Museum is open daily, 8am – 5pm CT with the last admissions being sold by 4:30pm. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors age 62+, $7 for youth age 5-12 and free for children age 4 and under. Located in Bowling Green, Kentucky on the same street as the world’s only GM Corvette Assembly Plant at I-65, Exit 28 – the Museum is a membership-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation. Learn more at corvettemuseum.org or call 800-53 VETTE (83883).