Wayne’s upholsterer, 81-year-old Joe Romero, covered the factory seats and door panels with Connolly red leather and carpeted the floors with Mercedes Wilton Wool. If you can spot the one major difference inside, you really know your early Corvettes - the steering wheel is a ‘57. The stock ‘54 wheel was simply a Chevrolet passenger car unit with a

Aesthetics are important on this car, where a silver and red theme prevails.

Corvette logo. On very close inspection, you will also recognize the red “Davis” logos on the gauge faces, a job Wayne farmed out to Carriage Works in Grand View, Missouri.
     A 4-speed manual was still three and a half years away from the Corvette option sheet in 1954, so Wayne chose a 4-speed, shifter, and