Wednesday, January 14, 2009


This is Volume 1- Number 1 of the Corvette magazine. I'll start with it because it was my beginning association with Corvette. Later I'll go back and show some of the earlier ads. The idea for a magazine had already been presented to the Chevrolet client, a fellow named Joe Pike, when I came to the agency. I had been working for Benton and Bowles on the Studebaker account and had won several awards for their brochures before they became part of Packard. My new boss was Harry Borgman who is still active and producing wonderful stuff. Go to http://harryborgmanart.blogspot.com/ to see some of his work. The budget for the first issue was lean - very lean. The photography had to be picked up from the GM photo archive. A man named Myron Scott ran the thing and was very happy to have his material used. Several writers in our group contributed copy and I put the issue together. It established what the magazine would look like for many years. If you happen to have this first issue of CORVETTE NEWS you have a very valuable piece of Corvette memorabilia.

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