This is a 37 page professional paper presented by E.J. Premo of Chevrolet at the SAE annual meeting in Detroit January 11, 1954. It discusses the material and methods used to produce 1953 Corvette bodies, repairs and future methods. Page 483-484 has some of the unexpected (and now legendary) problems that 1953 Corvett'se faced: Water leak and grounds.

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