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{{short description|Swiss race car driver}}
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| birth_name = Louis-Joseph Chevrolet
| birth_name = Louis-Joseph Chevrolet
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|12|25|df=yes}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|12|25}}
| birth_place = [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]], [[Canton of Neuchâtel]], [[Switzerland]]
| birth_place = [[La Chaux-de-Fonds]], [[Canton of Neuchâtel]], [[Switzerland]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|06|06|1878|12|25|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|06|06|1878|12|25}}
| death_place = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], US
| death_place = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.
| retired = <!-- year of retirement -->
| retired = <!-- year of retirement -->
| related to = [[Arthur Chevrolet]] (younger brother)<br>[[Gaston Chevrolet]] (youngest brother)
| related to = [[Arthur Chevrolet]] (younger brother)<br>[[Gaston Chevrolet]] (youngest brother)
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'''Louis-Joseph Chevrolet''' ({{IPA-fr|ʃəvʁɔlɛ|lang}}; 25 December 1878 – 6 June 1941) was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] race car driver, co-founder of the [[Chevrolet|Chevrolet Motor Car Company]] in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]].
'''Louis-Joseph Chevrolet''' ({{IPA-fr|ʃəvʁɔlɛ|lang}}; December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] race car driver, co-founder of the [[Chevrolet|Chevrolet Motor Car Company]] in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]].


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
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In 1905 he married Suzanne Treyvoux;<ref name=HDS/> the couple had two sons. In the same year, he was hired by [[FIAT]] as a racing car driver. In 1907, Chevrolet was hired by [[Autocar Company|The Autocar Company]] in [[Philadelphia]],<ref>The Automobile, January 17, 1907, p. 174</ref> probably for a secret project to develop a revolutionary [[front-wheel-drive]] racing car.
In 1905 he married Suzanne Treyvoux;<ref name=HDS/> the couple had two sons. In the same year, he was hired by [[FIAT]] as a racing car driver. In 1907, Chevrolet was hired by [[Autocar Company|The Autocar Company]] in [[Philadelphia]],<ref>The Automobile, January 17, 1907, p. 174</ref> probably for a secret project to develop a revolutionary [[front-wheel-drive]] racing car.


His racing career continued as he drove for [[Buick]], becoming a friend and associate of Buick owner [[William C. Durant]], founder of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]].<ref>Page from General Motors website. {{cite web|url=http://media.gm.com/me/chevrolet/en/corporate/c_history/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-01-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.is/20070619104623/http://media.gm.com/me/chevrolet/en/corporate/c_history/index.html |archive-date=19 June 2007 }}</ref> He raced at the [[Giants Despair Hillclimb]] in 1909.
His racing career continued as he drove for [[Buick]], becoming a friend and associate of Buick owner [[William C. Durant]], founder of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]].<ref>Page from General Motors website. {{cite web|url=http://media.gm.com/me/chevrolet/en/corporate/c_history/index.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-01-29 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.is/20070619104623/http://media.gm.com/me/chevrolet/en/corporate/c_history/index.html |archive-date=June 19, 2007 }}</ref> He raced at the [[Giants Despair Hillclimb]] in 1909.


With little in the way of formal education, Chevrolet learned car design while working for Buick and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909. He built an [[overhead valve]] six-cylinder engine in his own [[machine shop]] on [[U.S. Route 16 in Michigan|Grand River Boulevard]] in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]].<ref>Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.179.</ref> He is credited as one of three co-designers of the 1910 [[Buick 60 Special]], also known as the "Buick Bug".<ref name="lcsw-bio"/><ref name="dfp-jul1940"/>
With little in the way of formal education, Chevrolet learned car design while working for Buick and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909. He built an [[overhead valve]] six-cylinder engine in his own [[machine shop]] on [[U.S. Route 16 in Michigan|Grand River Boulevard]] in [[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]].<ref>Clymer, Floyd. ''Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925'' (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.179.</ref> He is credited as one of three co-designers of the 1910 [[Buick 60 Special]], also known as the "Buick Bug".<ref name="lcsw-bio"/><ref name="dfp-jul1940"/>
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===Chevrolet car company===
===Chevrolet car company===


On 3 November 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the [[Chevrolet|Chevrolet Motor Car Company]] with his brother [[Arthur Chevrolet|Arthur]], Durant, and investment partners William Little (maker of the [[Little (automobile)|Little automobile]]) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell, son-in-law of Durant and friend of [[Samuel McLaughlin]] of the [[McLaughlin automobile|McLaughlin Car Company of Canada]] Ltd. The company was established in Detroit. One story tells the choosing of the company's logo as a modified [[Swiss cross]], to honor Chevrolet's homeland.<ref>[[John McPhee|McPhee, John]] ''La Place de la Concorde Suisse''. New York: Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1984</ref>
On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the [[Chevrolet|Chevrolet Motor Car Company]] with his brother [[Arthur Chevrolet|Arthur]], Durant, and investment partners William Little (maker of the [[Little (automobile)|Little automobile]]) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell, son-in-law of Durant and friend of [[Samuel McLaughlin]] of the [[McLaughlin automobile|McLaughlin Car Company of Canada]] Ltd. The company was established in Detroit. One story tells the choosing of the company's logo as a modified [[Swiss cross]], to honor Chevrolet's homeland.<ref>[[John McPhee|McPhee, John]] ''La Place de la Concorde Suisse''. New York: Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1984</ref>
Another story tells of the Chevrolet logo as a design taken from the wallpaper of a Paris hotel room where Louis once stayed.
Another story tells of the Chevrolet logo as a design taken from the wallpaper of a Paris hotel room where Louis once stayed.


Chevrolet had differences with Durant over the car's design, and in 1915 sold Durant his share in the company and started McLaughlin's Company in Canada building Chevrolets. By 1916 the trading of Chevrolet stock for GM Holding stock enabled Durant to repurchase a controlling stake in [[General Motors]], and by 1917 the Chevrolet company that Louis had co-founded was merged as a company into General Motors after the outstanding Chevrolet stocks were purchased from McLaughlin in 1918. The McLaughlin Car Company then merged with his Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada Ltd. to become [[General Motors Canada|General Motors of Canada Ltd.]] in 1918, prior to the incorporation of the General Motors Corporation in the US when General Motors Company of New Jersey dissolved.
Chevrolet had differences with Durant over the car's design, and in 1915 sold Durant his share in the company and started McLaughlin's Company in Canada building Chevrolets. By 1916 the trading of Chevrolet stock for GM Holding stock enabled Durant to repurchase a controlling stake in [[General Motors]], and by 1917 the Chevrolet company that Louis had co-founded was merged as a company into General Motors after the outstanding Chevrolet stocks were purchased from McLaughlin in 1918. The McLaughlin Car Company then merged with his Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada Ltd. to become [[General Motors Canada|General Motors of Canada Ltd.]] in 1918, prior to the incorporation of the General Motors Corporation in the U.S. when General Motors Company of New Jersey dissolved.


===Frontenac and American car companies===
===Frontenac and American car companies===
[[File:American Motors Corporation advert in Horseless Age v44 n4 1918-05-15 p7.png|thumb|American Motors Corporation advertisement in the journal ''Horseless Age'', 15 May 1918.]]
[[File:American Motors Corporation advert in Horseless Age v44 n4 1918-05-15 p7.png|thumb|American Motors Corporation advertisement in the journal ''Horseless Age'', May 15, 1918.]]


In 1916, Louis Chevrolet and his brothers founded the [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]] to make racing parts for [[Ford Model T]]s.
In 1916, Louis Chevrolet and his brothers founded the [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]] to make racing parts for [[Ford Model T]]s.
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By the mid-1910s, Louis Chevrolet had shifted into the racing car industry, partnering with Howard E. Blood of [[Allegan, Michigan]], to create the [[Cornelian automobile|Cornelian]] racing car, which he used to place 20th in the 1915 [[Indianapolis 500]] automobile race. In 1916, he and younger brothers [[Gaston Chevrolet|Gaston]] and [[Arthur Chevrolet]] started [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]], designing and producing a line of racing cars. They became well known for, among other things, their Fronty-Ford racers.
By the mid-1910s, Louis Chevrolet had shifted into the racing car industry, partnering with Howard E. Blood of [[Allegan, Michigan]], to create the [[Cornelian automobile|Cornelian]] racing car, which he used to place 20th in the 1915 [[Indianapolis 500]] automobile race. In 1916, he and younger brothers [[Gaston Chevrolet|Gaston]] and [[Arthur Chevrolet]] started [[Frontenac Motor Corporation]], designing and producing a line of racing cars. They became well known for, among other things, their Fronty-Ford racers.


Louis drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919. Both Louis and Gaston competed successfully with racing [[Grand Prix Sunbeams 1921, 1922 TT|Sunbeams]] achieving a number of third places in 1916.<ref name="healbook">{{cite book |last=Heal |first=Anthony S. |author-link= |date=1 March 1989 |title=Sunbeam Racing Cars, 1910-30 |url= |location= |publisher=G T Foulis & Co Ltd |page=332 |isbn=978-0854297733}}</ref> Arthur competed twice, and Gaston won the race in 1920 in one of their Frontenacs, going on to win the 1920 [[American Championship Car Racing#National champions|AAA National Championship]]. He also raced for the Buick racing team.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 January 2009|title=Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941)|url=http://media.gm.com/media/me/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/me/en/0000/Chevrolet/00_00_Louis_Chevrolet.html|access-date=6 October 2020|website=media.gm.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Louis Chevrolet|url=https://www.geneseehistory.org/louis-chevrolet.html|access-date=6 October 2020|website=Genesee County Historical Society}}</ref>
Louis drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919. Both Louis and Gaston competed successfully with racing [[Grand Prix Sunbeams 1921, 1922 TT|Sunbeams]] achieving a number of third places in 1916.<ref name="healbook">{{cite book |last=Heal |first=Anthony S. |author-link= |date=1 March 1989 |title=Sunbeam Racing Cars, 1910-30 |url= |location= |publisher=G T Foulis & Co Ltd |page=332 |isbn=978-0854297733}}</ref> Arthur competed twice, and Gaston won the race in 1920 in one of their Frontenacs, going on to win the 1920 [[American Championship Car Racing#National champions|AAA National Championship]]. He also raced for the Buick racing team.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 1, 2009|title=Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941)|url=http://media.gm.com/media/me/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/me/en/0000/Chevrolet/00_00_Louis_Chevrolet.html|access-date=October 6, 2020|website=media.gm.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Louis Chevrolet|url=https://www.geneseehistory.org/louis-chevrolet.html|access-date=October 6, 2020|website=Genesee County Historical Society}}</ref>


===Mechanic in the company he founded.===
===Mechanic in the company he founded.===
In the 1920s, Chevrolet launched an aircraft engine construction company with Arthur, but a dispute with his brother and then the crisis of 1929 ruined him. He returned to Chevrolet as a simple mechanic in the Detroit factories.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gifted race car driver, inventor died penniless and forgotten |url=https://www.autonews.com/article/20080914/OEM02/309149918/gifted-race-car-driver-inventor-died-penniless-and-forgotten |website=Auto News |access-date=2 June 2021 |date=14 September 2008}}</ref>
In the 1920s, Chevrolet launched an aircraft engine construction company with Arthur, but a dispute with his brother and then the crisis of 1929 ruined him. He returned to Chevrolet as a simple mechanic in the Detroit factories.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gifted race car driver, inventor died penniless and forgotten |url=https://www.autonews.com/article/20080914/OEM02/309149918/gifted-race-car-driver-inventor-died-penniless-and-forgotten |website=Auto News |access-date=2 June 2021 |date=14 September 2008}}</ref>
===Death===
===Death===
Chevrolet died on 6 June 1941, in Detroit due to a heart attack. He had been plagued with atherosclerosis which had previously led to a leg amputation. He is buried in the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Chevrolet brother's grave finally gets a tombstone|url=http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/driving/story.html?id=b55d77f3-0a69-4694-b212-89665ae3e0d2|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=[[Edmonton Journal]]|date=11 Nov 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110014/http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/driving/story.html?id=b55d77f3-0a69-4694-b212-89665ae3e0d2|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Certificate of Death |url=http://cdm16317.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16317coll1/id/1526951/rec/1 |website=Seeking Michigan |access-date=6 July 2019}}</ref>
Chevrolet died on June 6, 1941, in Detroit due to a heart attack. He had been plagued with atherosclerosis which had previously led to a leg amputation. He is buried in the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Chevrolet brother's grave finally gets a tombstone|url=http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/driving/story.html?id=b55d77f3-0a69-4694-b212-89665ae3e0d2|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=[[Edmonton Journal]]|date=11 Nov 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110014/http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/driving/story.html?id=b55d77f3-0a69-4694-b212-89665ae3e0d2|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Certificate of Death |url=http://cdm16317.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16317coll1/id/1526951/rec/1 |website=Seeking Michigan |access-date=6 July 2019}}</ref>


==Louis Chevrolet Memorial==
==Louis Chevrolet Memorial==
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Chevrolet was inducted into the following halls of fame:
Chevrolet was inducted into the following halls of fame:


*[[Automotive Hall of Fame]] (1969)<ref name="AHF-Chevrolet">{{cite web |url=http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/inductee/louis-chevrolet/23/ |work=Hall of Fame Inductees |title=Louis Chevrolet |publisher=Automotive Hall of Fame |access-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308035752/http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/inductee/louis-chevrolet/23/ |archive-date=8 March 2016 }}</ref>
*[[Automotive Hall of Fame]] (1969)<ref name="AHF-Chevrolet">{{cite web |url=http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/inductee/louis-chevrolet/23/ |work=Hall of Fame Inductees |title=Louis Chevrolet |publisher=Automotive Hall of Fame |access-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308035752/http://www.automotivehalloffame.org/inductee/louis-chevrolet/23/ |archive-date=March 8, 2016 }}</ref>


*[[National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum|National Sprint Car Hall of Fame]] (1990)
*[[National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum|National Sprint Car Hall of Fame]] (1990)

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Louis Chevrolet
Chevrolet in 1914
NationalitySwiss
BornLouis-Joseph Chevrolet
(1878-12-25)December 25, 1878
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
DiedJune 6, 1941(1941-06-06) (aged 62)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Related toArthur Chevrolet (younger brother)
Gaston Chevrolet (youngest brother)

Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (French: [ʃəvʁɔlɛ]; December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a Swiss race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the Frontenac Motor Corporation.

Life and career

Early life

The second child of Joseph-Félicien Chevrolet, a watchmaker, and Marie-Anne Angéline Mahon,[1] Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, a center of watchmaking in northwestern Switzerland.[2] In 1886, Chevrolet's family left Switzerland to live in Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or département of France. There, as a young man, Louis developed his mechanical skills and interest in bicycle racing.

Louis Chevrolet in a Frontenac he designed, circa 1914.

Early career

Louis Chevrolet in a Buick racer in Crown Point, Indiana, during the Cobe Cup Race in 1909.

Chevrolet worked for the Roblin mechanics shop in Beaune from 1895 to 1899.[1] He then went to Paris, where he worked for a short time before emigrating to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1900 to work as a mechanic. The following year, he moved to New York City, where he worked briefly for a fellow Swiss immigrant's engineering company, then moved to the Brooklyn operations of the French car manufacturer de Dion-Bouton.

In 1905 he married Suzanne Treyvoux;[1] the couple had two sons. In the same year, he was hired by FIAT as a racing car driver. In 1907, Chevrolet was hired by The Autocar Company in Philadelphia,[3] probably for a secret project to develop a revolutionary front-wheel-drive racing car.

His racing career continued as he drove for Buick, becoming a friend and associate of Buick owner William C. Durant, founder of General Motors.[4] He raced at the Giants Despair Hillclimb in 1909.

With little in the way of formal education, Chevrolet learned car design while working for Buick and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909. He built an overhead valve six-cylinder engine in his own machine shop on Grand River Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan.[5] He is credited as one of three co-designers of the 1910 Buick 60 Special, also known as the "Buick Bug".[6][7]

Chevrolet car company

On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with his brother Arthur, Durant, and investment partners William Little (maker of the Little automobile) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell, son-in-law of Durant and friend of Samuel McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Car Company of Canada Ltd. The company was established in Detroit. One story tells the choosing of the company's logo as a modified Swiss cross, to honor Chevrolet's homeland.[8] Another story tells of the Chevrolet logo as a design taken from the wallpaper of a Paris hotel room where Louis once stayed.

Chevrolet had differences with Durant over the car's design, and in 1915 sold Durant his share in the company and started McLaughlin's Company in Canada building Chevrolets. By 1916 the trading of Chevrolet stock for GM Holding stock enabled Durant to repurchase a controlling stake in General Motors, and by 1917 the Chevrolet company that Louis had co-founded was merged as a company into General Motors after the outstanding Chevrolet stocks were purchased from McLaughlin in 1918. The McLaughlin Car Company then merged with his Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada Ltd. to become General Motors of Canada Ltd. in 1918, prior to the incorporation of the General Motors Corporation in the U.S. when General Motors Company of New Jersey dissolved.

Frontenac and American car companies

American Motors Corporation advertisement in the journal Horseless Age, May 15, 1918.

In 1916, Louis Chevrolet and his brothers founded the Frontenac Motor Corporation to make racing parts for Ford Model Ts.

Also in 1916, American Motors Corporation (unrelated to the later American Motors created by the 1954 merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company) was formed in Newark, New Jersey, with Louis Chevrolet as vice president and chief engineer.[9] By 1918 it was producing cars in a plant at Plainfield, New Jersey.[10] In 1923 it merged with the Bessemer Motor Truck Company of Pennsylvania into Bessemer-American Motors Corporation, which lasted less than a year before merging with the Winther and Northway companies into Amalgamated Motors. The latter company apparently ceased soon after.

Auto racing

By the mid-1910s, Louis Chevrolet had shifted into the racing car industry, partnering with Howard E. Blood of Allegan, Michigan, to create the Cornelian racing car, which he used to place 20th in the 1915 Indianapolis 500 automobile race. In 1916, he and younger brothers Gaston and Arthur Chevrolet started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing and producing a line of racing cars. They became well known for, among other things, their Fronty-Ford racers.

Louis drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919. Both Louis and Gaston competed successfully with racing Sunbeams achieving a number of third places in 1916.[11] Arthur competed twice, and Gaston won the race in 1920 in one of their Frontenacs, going on to win the 1920 AAA National Championship. He also raced for the Buick racing team.[12][13]

Mechanic in the company he founded.

In the 1920s, Chevrolet launched an aircraft engine construction company with Arthur, but a dispute with his brother and then the crisis of 1929 ruined him. He returned to Chevrolet as a simple mechanic in the Detroit factories.[14]

Death

Chevrolet died on June 6, 1941, in Detroit due to a heart attack. He had been plagued with atherosclerosis which had previously led to a leg amputation. He is buried in the Holy Cross and Saint Joseph Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.[15][16]

Louis Chevrolet Memorial

File:Louischevroletbig.jpg
Louis Chevrolet Memorial, Indianapolis Speedway

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum in Speedway, Indiana, features a memorial at the entrance to the building dedicated to the accomplishments of Louis Chevrolet. The memorial, designed by Fred Wellman and sculpted by Adolph Wolter, was created during 1968–1970 and installed in the spring of 1975. The centerpiece of the memorial is a bronze bust of Chevrolet wearing a racing cap and goggles; it rests on a marble and granite square base.

Indy 500 results

Awards

Chevrolet was inducted into the following halls of fame:

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas Fuchs. "Louis Chevrolet". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in French). Translated by Florence Piguet.
  2. ^ "Louis Chevrolet | Biography & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  3. ^ The Automobile, January 17, 1907, p. 174
  4. ^ Page from General Motors website. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Clymer, Floyd. Treasury of Early American Automobiles, 1877–1925 (New York: Bonanza Books, 1950), p.179.
  6. ^ "Louis Chevrolet, the man". Louis Chevrolet Swiss Watches.
  7. ^ "Motor Festival Brings Buick Bug from Retirement". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 28 Jul 1940. p. 39.
  8. ^ McPhee, John La Place de la Concorde Suisse. New York: Noonday Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1984
  9. ^ Editorial staff and correspondents (1916-03-01), "American Motors Corporation formed", Automobile Trade Journal, 20 (9): 108. {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ American Motors Corporation (1918-05-15), "Advertisement", Horseless Age, 44 (4): 7.
  11. ^ Heal, Anthony S. (1 March 1989). Sunbeam Racing Cars, 1910-30. G T Foulis & Co Ltd. p. 332. ISBN 978-0854297733.
  12. ^ "Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941)". media.gm.com. January 1, 2009. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  13. ^ "Louis Chevrolet". Genesee County Historical Society. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
  14. ^ "Gifted race car driver, inventor died penniless and forgotten". Auto News. 14 September 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  15. ^ "Chevrolet brother's grave finally gets a tombstone". Edmonton Journal. 11 Nov 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
  16. ^ "Certificate of Death". Seeking Michigan. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  17. ^ "Louis Chevrolet". Hall of Fame Inductees. Automotive Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 8, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
  18. ^ Louis Chevrolet at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
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