A couple weeks back we had the great opportunity to head west and visit the amazing Spring Mountain Motor Resort and Country Club. This adult playground is the home of the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School that’s available at a heavily discounted rate to all who purchase a new Corvette. It’s way more that, too.
They’re only original once, goes the old adage.
That saying was never more appropriate than in describing this 1967 big-block Corvette that has survived the test of time and not surprisingly has attracted a plethora of attention on eBay.
GM Sports Car Racing Program Manager Laura Klauser made her first public comments on the ACO’s announcement last week that it plans to limit its new GT3 class to Pro-Am entrants, leaving the future of factory Corvette Racing at Le Mans unknown beyond 2023.
The Corvette team’s bad luck at setting a timed lap at the Nurburgring during the C7 generation is continuing with the C8 Corvette Z06 according to ‘Ring expert Dale Lomas who is the founder of the Bridge to Gantry news site.
![[VIDEO] First Look at Caffeine Metallic on the 2022 Corvette Stingray](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/082521_14b.jpg)
Earlier today our friend Mike Furman sent us pics of the new Hypersonic Gray and Amplify Orange Corvettes that are now on display for this weekend’s Corvettes at Carlisle Show.
Now, we have our first look at the new Caffeine Metallic exterior which just showed up on another pre-production 2022 Corvette that will be shown over the weekend. We also have a quick walkaround video of the new color.
![[PICS] Hypersonic Gray On Display This Week at Corvettes at Carlisle](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/082521_5b.jpg)
We got confirmation this morning from our friend Mike Furman that the new Hypersonic Gray exterior will be on display at this week’s Corvettes at Carlisle show.
![[VIDEO] Is the C8 Corvette Market Finally Cracking?](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/082521_3b.jpg)
Has the C8 Corvette market peaked? That’s the question YouTuber Fourwheel Trader attempts to answer in his latest video which focuses on the current C8 Corvette appreciation and depreciation trends.
![[VIDEO] Extreme Turbo Systems Shatters C8 Corvette World Record With a 9.05 at 159 MPH](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/082521_2b.jpg)
While most owners are more than happy with the amazing performance of the C8 Corvette that’s capable of an 11.3 second quarter mile at 121 mph straight from the factory, others seek to unlock even faster quarter-mile times with aftermarket upgrades.
It was nearly a year ago that a 2020 Corvette armed with an Extreme Turbo System’s ETS kit broke the 9-second barrier with a run of 9.95 seconds. Now the company has claimed the title of the World’s fastest C8 Corvette with a quarter-mile run of 9.05 seconds at 159 mph!
![[PICS] The Corvettes of the 2021 Woodward Dream Cruise](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/082421_140b.jpg)
After a one-year Covid hiatus, the world’s largest single-day automotive event returned to the Detroit suburbs and world-famous Woodward Avenue. An estimated 1,000,000 people and 30,000-40,000 collector cars hit the streets, parking lots, and city parks all along the road to celebrate our beloved car culture as part of the annual Woodward Dream Cruise.
If you’re interested in the upcoming Callaway Corvette C8 “Launch Edition,” you might want to head to this weekend’s Corvettes at Carlisle where the car will be making its public debut.
