{"id":21,"date":"2006-11-27T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T20:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/louis-chevrolet-a-brief-biography-of-this-chevy-founder\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T09:33:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:33:44","slug":"louis-chevrolet-a-brief-biography-of-this-chevy-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/21\/louis-chevrolet-a-brief-biography-of-this-chevy-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Chevrolet &#8211; A Brief Biography of this Chevy Founder."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"147322a129097e1fa44d6732c925fd6d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<table width=\"250\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/covers\/a29-a32.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/Classic-Early-Chevr-18.html\"><br \/>\nChevrolet History<br \/>\n4 DVD Film Collection<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland. He was a racing driver and the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/Classic-Early-Chevr-18.html\">Chevrolet<br \/>\nMotor Car Company<\/a>, which was acquired by General Motors and is their best-known brand worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In 1886 Chevrolet&#8217;s family left Switzerland to live in Beaune in the C\u00c3\u00b4te-d&#8217;Or   d\u00c3\u00a9partement of France. It was there as a young man that Louis Chevrolet   developed his mechanical skills and interest in auto racing. He worked for the   Roblin mechanics shop from 1895 to 1899. He then went to Paris where he worked   for a short time before migrating to Montreal, Quebec in Canada in 1900. The   following year, he moved to New York City here he was hired by FIAT.<\/p>\n<p>While working for the Buick motor company, Louis Chevrolet learned car design   and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909. Shortly thereafter,   he partnered with William C. Durant to start the Chevrolet Motor Car Company   in Detroit, Michigan. Chevrolet had differences with Durant over the design   of the Chevrolet automobiles and in 1915 sold Durant his share in the company.   The next year, the company was folded into Durant&#8217;s General Motors.<\/p>\n<p>After his ill fated partnership, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/Classic-Early-Chevr-18.html\">Chevrolet<\/a> went into the racing car industry.   He partnered with Howard E. Blood of Allegan, Michigan to create the Cornelian,   a state of the art racing car which he used to place 20th in the 1915 Indy 500.   In 1916, he and his brother Gaston started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing   and producing another line of racing cars.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Chevrolet proved to be a natural mechanical genius. He had little in   the way of a formal education. Louis was the older brother of Gaston Chevrolet   (1892-1920), who won the 1920 Indianapolis 500 in a car he had built. Louis   also competed in the race four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919, and   his brother Arthur also competed twice.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Chevrolet died on June 6, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan and is buried in   the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. His bust   stands at the entrance to the museum at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F21%2Flouis-chevrolet-a-brief-biography-of-this-chevy-founder%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevrolet History 4 DVD Film Collection Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born on December 25, 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland. He was a racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, which was acquired by General Motors and is their best-known brand worldwide. 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