What Does Jesse James have to do with Corvettes?

You turn the corner in the Corvette museum…. and there is a poster of Jesse James. No… he didn’t steal a Corvette, but he did rob the Bowling Green stagecoach…… Maybe it was one that looks like this.

Meanwhile back to the actual subject of this museum…..

Just when you thought it had ceased being weird…. then we are told that the Russians had something to do with the creation of the Corvette….. (no this is not fake news). See below.

Now the name, at least we owe to this gentleman….

But he’s not the designer of the Sting Ray…. which by the way, there were Corvette’s before the Sting Ray model showed up in the late 50s.

More than any other model, it was the Sting Ray that made this car famous, and most sports car enthusiasts wanted one—- even astronauts. There are famous Corvette car clubs all over the place—–

Indeed, so popular were these cars that people had the car custom made with all sorts of weird colors— behold exhibit One below.