Throwback Thursday: Malcolm Konner Takes 25 Customers to Pick Up New 1960 Corvettes in St. Louis

 Many of you may have seen the throwback pics last weekend from National Corvette Seller Mike Furman who shared a number of photos featuring Chevrolet dealer Malcolm Konner who took 50 people (25 customers) to the Corvette Assembly Plant in St. Louis in October 1959 to pick up their new 1960 Corvettes at the factory and they would drive them home to New Jersey.

We’ve actually done a previous Throwback Thursday post about this trip back in 2017, but last week we got a whole new look as Malcolm Konner’s son RJ Konner shared these two home videos to Facebook showing the trip to St. Louis (and even some scenes from inside the factory) before the 25 new Corvette owners headed home to Konner Chevrolet in New Jersey via a timed road rally. Waiting for them in New Jersey was the famous entertainer Pat Boone who was a personal friend of Malcolm and a Corvette customer.

Along the way the camera captures scenes of late-1950’s Americana featuring wide-open highways to drive on and stays at the Holiday Inn.

Check out the official invitation for the Personal 1960 Corvette Delivery at the plant, as well as the Road Rally plans:

It’s really amazing that Malcolm was able to put a trip like this together just six years into the production of the sports car, and it also says a lot about his customer’s passion for the new Corvette to jet off to St.Louis and then drive halfway across the country to back home. Just the logistics of chartering a TWA airplane and then planning the drive home must have taken some planning as the national highway system has just started construction three years prior.