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Is that a Jag/Daimler bonnet I spy in the second pic??

Those Corvettes are very nice looking.  I'm personally not a Corvette expert, but I can tell you that the black 'vette is either a 1956 or 1957 (those are almost identical-the motor is the only way I know to tell them apart).  If it is a V8 car, the 1956 would have a 256ci V8 engine and the 1957 would have a 283ci V8 engine.

The red one is newer, it is a 1958-1960 model (again, I really can't tell the exact year).  

Nice photos!

The first Corvette was built on June 30, 1953 at the Flint, Michigan assembly plant. These Corvettes were constructed in an area at the back of Chevy's customer delivery garage on Van Slyke Ave. They are not only the first, but also the rarest Vettes.
300 cars were produced and about 200 are still in the hands of collectors. The first two cars are missing. By early 1954, Chev said that 315 Corvettes had been built and that production had moved to the assembly plant in St. Louis, Missouri. They predicted that 1000 Corvettes per month would be built in St. Louis by June 1954 and that 10,000 per year could be built and sold