BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The first 50th anniversary Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line about a week ago, and the National Corvette Museum began its yearlong birthday party Thursday.

        The main event is the Historic Corvette Motorama, representing every model year of the Corvette, 1953 to 2002. The motorama left Flint, Mich., on Monday.

        It went through the General Motors Design Center in Warren, Mich., and made a stop in St. Louis, where the Corvette was made from December 1953 to June 1981, when production was moved to Bowling Green.

        “The Historic Motorama is becoming very significant,” said Wendell Strode, the museum's executive director. “It seems so appropriate to retrace the roots.”

        The 50th anniversary 2003 model will join the motorama today at the GM Corvette Assembly Plant and it will make its way to the museum, where the motorama will be on display this weekend.

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