Dealer Makes Good on New Corvette For Customer

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Wrecked CorvetteMost of us cringe at the thoughts of leaving our Corvettes with any service shop for any amount of unsupervised time because the fear that some employee may take it for a joyride. Ferris Bueller anyone? Autoblog has picked up on a story about one such Corvette owner who left his car at San Rafael Chevrolet for fixing a trunk lid and came back the next day to find $15,000 in damage to the front passenger side. Apparently, an employee took it for a ride and wrecked it while spinning out in gravel and then was hit by a box truck. As the posting went on the Corvette Forum, the owner (CF handle: ask1ed) wanted his Corvette replaced or repaired and compensated for the lost value of the car due to the wreck. The dealership initially wanted to pay for the repairs, which would take six weeks. The owner urged forum members to email or call the dealership on his behalf and it appears the publicity worked. The dealership’s General Manager called the owner and promised to provide a comparable Corvette with the same color scheme and options package. San Rafael Chevrolet did the right thing by offering to replace (and quickly) the wrecked Corvette. While that’s the happy ending to this story, I would like to quote the owner’s post about his experience with Corvettes:

I believe this was a misunderstanding on his part (Dealer). An occupational hazard. When you have thousands of cars coming through your lot, I think you tend to forget what this car means to the common man. It’s the poor man’s Ferrari; and I don’t believe that rich people own these cars. Poor people buy them, after scraping and suffering and working hard for every dollar for years and years. It was you people who reminded him. You reminded him this car is not just a car. It’s a special thing, the last American icon in the automotive world. We looked forward for many years, with a lot of passion, lurking on the forums, without ever posting. We waited for seven months for our car to be delivered as ordered. We could not believe how smooth it was. How fast it was. (Sorry CHP for speeding.) How it handled. And to tell the truth, we have never had so many people so willing to help us over anything in our entire lives. So it was sort of shocking to see so many strangers helping us. I guess, it’s a gang; and when you mess with one member of the gang, you mess with all of us. Anyway, we will see if he comes through as promised, and I do believe he will. It was you guys who reminded him, “It’s not just a car, “IT’S A VETTE.” And you can quote me on that. GM should adopt that as an ad campaign. Call my people and you can have the slogan.
“It’s Not Just A Car…It’s A Vette”! Source:
Corvette Forum via Autoblog
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