The Crossed-Flags Emblem
The crossed-flags emblem has been a part of the Corvette since the first car rolled off the assembly line, but did you know that the first emblem actually had the American flag as one of the flags? This was quickly changed before the first production car was completed after GM found out that using a representation of the American flag is illegal. The red replacement flag was created in the fleur-de-lis design as a nod to the French background of the word Chevrolet.
The emblem is redesgned for each Corvette styling generation. The photo above is the first crossed-flags emblem, a picture of a nose badge on a C1 Corvette. The C7 emblem was recently released to the public in anticipation of the next styling generation on the 2014 Corvette.
