So you're an American in Germany, home of the beerhouse and wiener schnitzel and you're hungry. So where do you go to grab something fast and familiar? McDonalds of course! The Corvette ZR1 is shown here sitting in a parking lot at a local German McDonalds while the drivers are no doubt filling themselves up on "Royales with Cheese".

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I haven't checked to see if there is a full moon out or not, but for whatever reason we are coming across a full spectrum of Corvette oddities this week. Yesterday it was the 1954 custom Corvette Hardtop we spotted on Craigslist. Today its a Chevy Vettamino, a chopped 1984 Corvette with a very El Camino-like bed for those trips to Home Depot or for helping your friend move a couch.

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I spotted this oddity on Craigslist today. The seller states the following: "Unsure of origin. This top is wired for the lights to work. This was not made in someone's back yard. It may be a GM original concept. Sold the car last year."

Anybody got a clue? More photos after the jump.

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BridgetoGantry.com has seen spotted Corvette's ZR1 yesterday at the Nürburgring. Dale Lomas, writing for the officially unofficial track blog states that the weather has been warm and dry over the previous days and that has brought out Team Corvette and their supercharged 638 hp Corvette ZR1, this time dressed in red. Dale goes on to speculate that GM may have been looking for a lap time as he "spotted a helicopter chasing something that sounded very V8 and awfully supercharged..."

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Keith Martin, publisher of Sports Car Market and Corvette Market magazines is offering his 1963 Corvette Coupe for sale on eBay. Keith is very well known in the collector car market and several of his publications feature photos of him with this Corvette, including his book "Keith Martin's Guide to Car Collecting". The Corvette was part of the ever rotating stable of collectibles that are used by Sports Car Market staff and to make room for some new additions, the Sebring Silver split window has to go.

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1955 was the turning point for Corvette with two significant changes that kept the 2 seat roadster from becoming extinct. The first was the introduction of the V8 engine - a 265 ci 195 hp small block that ushered the beginning of continual performance upgrades in the Corvette. The second was the introduction of Ford's Thunderbird. Ford sold just over 16,000 Thunderbirds in its inaugural year compared to the Corvettes 4,600 during its first three years of production. Some say GM execs were too embarrassed to quit in light of Ford's success. Let's be glad they persevered and built Corvette into the iconic symbol it is today.

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We've got a few weeks before the next ALMS race but lucky for us our friends at Bad Boy Vettes have put together a music video to help us pass the time.

Corvette Racing will be in Utah on May 18th for the Larry H. Miller Dealership's Utah Grand Prix, held at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. SPEED will be covering the 2 hour forty-five minute race live beginning at 3 pm EST.

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When news hit last month of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 running the Nürburgring, many of us were a bit disappointed to hear that lap times were averaging in the low 7:40s. After all, Jan Magnussen took a 2005 Corvette Z06 around the ring in 7:42.9 and the new Corvette ZR1 should be faster than that, right? So we kept reminding ourselves about how the track was wet and cold and that the timing was by hand and that the car held two occupants. Corvette's Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter told us not to worry as the "ZR1 will beat the track record for production cars at any road course in the world."

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GM released April 2008's Corvette sales figures and for the third consecutive month, the total number of Corvettes delivered was larger than the month before. April 2008's Corvette sales totaled 3,190 - nearly 500 Corvettes more than were delivered in March, an increase of 18.5%. Although the number was still behind April 2007's delivery of 3,227 Corvettes, the gap in year to year sales shrunk to just 1.1%. For the calendar year (Jan-Apr) 9,968 Corvettes have been delivered, lagging 12.6% behind the 11,403 Corvettes sold during the same time period in 2007.

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A couple of weeks ago we were knocked back on our heels as the Corvette Mach 5, the grand prize in a promotion for the new Speed Racer movie, raced onto the scene. The Corvette Mach 5 is actually a C5 Corvette that has been rebodied in the style of the C2 complete with chrome bumpers and a stinger hood. The Corvette was built by team of Spike TV's Powerblock series and this Saturday, May 3rd, we'll actually be able to watch the making of video.

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I present this video from Mecum's Muscle Cars and More April 26th auction for two reasons. The first is that the commentators are absolutely correct in saying Corvettes like this 1993 40th Anniversary Edition are a great way for get started in the Corvette hobby. They represent value and performance and should be nearing the end of declining prices. That being said, I wish I was in Indy with a bidder's card when this Corvette stalled and then was hammered for $11,000.

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Corvette's Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter hosted a chat on the GMNext.com website this afternoon to discuss the 2009 Corvette ZR1 so we made sure not to miss it! What did we learn from the Corvette Chief today? Plenty. Tadge touched on a variety of subjects relating to the Corvette ZR1 including early concepts to the engineering challenges faced by the team. Continue reading for more of Tadge's comments plus the complete chat transcript.

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Corvette's Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter will be online on Tuesday at 3pm EST on GMNext.com to answer your questions in a live chat format. For those of us that missed hearing Tadge discuss the new Corvette ZR1 at the C5/C6 Bash this weekend, this will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the most powerful Chevrolet ever made with Corvette's Chief Engineer.

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The C5/C6 Bash at the National Corvette Museum has wrapped for another year and as is generally the case, there was some interesting news coming straight from the folks at GM. This preliminary 2008 Corvette Model Year Data slide was presented in one of GM's forums at the Museum over the bash weekend. The data is from start of production through April 2nd and shows the production numbers for each model as well as some of the more popular options with model penetration.

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We had a feeling GM was sandbagging us with the production specs of the 2009 Corvette ZR1 back in December. 620 horses is equal to one hundred horsepower per liter they told us. Revised specs in the Spring, we heard. Well, it's unveiling time at the Museum's C5/C6 Bash and GM finally makes the Supercharged LS9 6.2L V8 power specs official: The new 2009 Corvette ZR1 produces 638 horsepower and 604 lb-ft of torque.

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The opportunity for you to custom order a 2008 Corvette is rapidly coming to an end. Chevrolet dealers received their final allocations this week and you will need to act fast as this is the final week to get your order placed. Corvettes ordered this week will be built the week of May 19, 2008.

The 2008 model year for Corvette will come to a close on June 20th. The plant will be idled for three days as its prepped to produce the 2009 Corvette. Production on the 2009 is slated to begin June 23rd for Coupe, Convertible and Z06. ZR1 Corvette production is expected to start three weeks later on July 14th.

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"Welcome to the adult version of Christmas." That's what one speaker calls the day when the keys to all those Indy 500 festival cars are passed out. IGotShotgun was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 500 Festival Committee Meeting which culminates in members receiving the keys to their very own 2008 Indy 500 Corvette Pace Car and then taking them for some laps around the speedway.

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Late last year with much fanfare, Chevrolet announced that for the first time ever two Corvettes would be pacing the Indianapolis 500. One of the Corvettes is the customized Z06 E85 Concept highlighting GM's Green Initiative and will showcase the ability of the automaker to run even the Corvette on E85 Ethanol. But it was the second Corvette that is even more interesting in our opinion as it marked the 30th Anniversary of the 1978 Corvette Pace Car and would be commemorated by a special run of 500 Pace Car Replicas.

With only 500 of these special editions available, you would think that these Indy Pace Car replicas would be in demand and sell fast, but from the conversations we've had with several high-volume Corvette dealers, that just doesn't appear to be the case. Here is what we've been hearing as the major roadblocks to sales of the 30th Anniversary Corvette Pace Car and why we think owning this special edition is a smart investment.

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More than a few eyebrows were raised when Mecum Auctions announced their 6-week run of "Muscle Cars & More" at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds with television coverage provided by Discovery Channel's HD Theater. We saw the main challenge as being two-fold. Could Mecum keep a sustainable pipeline of quality cars coming in over the course of the 6-week auction run AND could they keep the interest of buyers who are used to the weekend auction fly-in (or drive-in)? We're here to report a solid yes regarding the Corvettes and a definite maybe on the buyers.

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Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen fought it out on the streets of Long Beach with their counterparts in the #4 Corvette C6.R and emerged victorious for the third stop of the American LeMans series. O'Connell and Magnussen's #3 Corvette C6.R scored a 1.374 second victory over Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta in the No. #4 Corvette. With the win, Johnny O'Connell becomes just the third driver in the ALMS to score 30 victories.

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German-based Geigercars was already well known in Corvette tuner circles for their performance engine enhancements and wide body kits. So when they turned their attention to the Corvette Z06, something special was bound to happen. GeigerCars calls it the Corvette Z06 Black Edition.

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Corvette Racing's #3 C6.R will be sitting on the pole this weekend for the Tequila Patron ALMS race at Long Beach thanks to Jan Magnussen. Magnussen put together a qualifying lap on the temporary circuit Friday at 1:17.059 (91.940 mph) shattering last year's qualifying time by 1.086 seconds. Oliver Gavin and the #4 Corvette C6.R were second in the class with a lap of 1:14.465 (91.458 mph).

Bell Motorsports Aston Martin DBR9 did not have a qualifying time listed on today's results.

"It was a really enjoyable lap – I was out there close to the walls, braking late, and riding the curbs," Magnussen said after notching his seventh career ALMS pole. "I'm sure I could have massaged the lap a little bit and improved my time, but then you get into the gray area where you might have a faster lap or you might have a broken car.

"We've been fast since we got here," said the Dane. "We were faster than last year from the get-go."

Magnussen employed a five lap strategy that appeared to pay off.

"I was very cautious during the first three laps because we'd set the tire pressures a little low to try to have a couple of stabs at the pole," Magnussen explained. "It worked out well – when the Michelins came in, my Corvette was perfect."

The Tequila Patron ALMS race at Long Beach starts at 4:10 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 19. ABC will broadcast the 100-minute race tape-delayed from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 20.

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On May 7th, 62 renowned motoring journalists from 30 countries will gather at the Engine Expo 2008 in Stuttgart Germany to cast their ballots for "The International Engine of the Year Award". Competition is always stiff and for engineers of the respective nominees, bragging rights for winning the world's best engine is the crowning achievement following years of development and testing.

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Plasan, the supplier of the carbon fiber body panels for the new 2009 Corvette ZR1 gives us a cool illustration of exactly how much each of their parts weigh and the results are rather surprising. The vertical wall display shows the panels hanging against a full size cad wire drawing of the new Corvette hotness with each of the parts "installed". Click the photo for a larger display.

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