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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was born on December 25, 1878, Canton of Jura, Switzerland. He soon grew up to become a racing driver and a co-founder of the one of the greatest of the classic American cars, Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
As a young man, he developed his mechanical skills and interest in car racing in Beaune, France. Here, he worked for the Roblin mechanics shop from 1895 to 1899. He soon migrated to Montreal, Quebec in Canada in 1900 and then moved on to New York City where he was hired by FIAT.
He was a mechanical genius who had little formal education. In 1909, he learned car design and started designing his own engine for a new car. The engine was an overhead valve six that he built in his own machine shop at Grand River Boulevard, Detroit.
Shortly after, he partnered with William Durant to start his company. In 1915 due to differences on design Chevrolet sold his share in the company to Durant. The next year, the company folded and became Durant's General Motors.
At this time, Chevrolet shifted his interest to the sports car industry where he created a state of the art race car. It was called the Cornelian and it finished 20th in the 1915 Indy 500. In 1916, Louis partnered with his younger brother Gaston and started the Frontenac Motor Corporation where they designed and produced another line of racing cars. Their most famous product was the Fronty-Ford racers.
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