Louis Chevrolet was born in Switzerland in 1978. It was soon apparent that Louis
had good mechanical skills and he soon started work at a bicycles shop, where he
started bicycle racing. Louis became interested in motorcars and spent a short time in
France. When Vanderbilt, an American, asked him to repair his car, he learned that
America was the new country of motorcars and so at age 22, he decides to move there.
The year was 1900, the beginning of the auto industry, and with his mechanical skills
he quickly found employment, initially at the factory of Dion-Bouton. Following his
bicycle racing, it did not take long for him to become involved in motorcar racing,
where he quickly became known as one of the best racing drivers in the world, racing
mostly cars built or modified by himself. As he was probably the most successful racing
driver in the world at that time, racing his custom Buick and other cars, William C.
Durant, a very successful motorcar entrepreneur asked him to design a new car for
him, which he did. This is how the Chevrolet brand originated when Louis started
manufacturing his new car in 1909.
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