[XBob]

525 - "They weren't plastic back then were they?"

Corvettes have always been fiberglass, since their inception in 1953, unless they have changed recently.

[VOA]

Corvettes have always been fiberglass, since their inception in 1953,
unless they have changed recently.

Whoa...guess I'll have to eat crow!!

[VOA]

http://motortrend.com/roadtests/classic/112_0304_test/

"The fiberglass body creaked and groaned"...1957 Corvette roadtest...
(man, am I embarassed...I thought the fiberglass didn't come along until the late 1960s)