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The 2014 Corvette Stingray's $51,995 Sticker May Come with an Asterisk

Corvette enthusiasts are smiling to beat the band about Chevrolet’s decision to keep the price of the exciting new 2014 Stingray basically the same as the C6 it’s replacing.

But some experts believe buyers won’t be as happy when they get ready to buy from some of the exclusive group of just 900 dealers chosen to sell the Stingray.

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Corvette Stingray Still Faces a Tough Road for Sales in Europe

Chevrolet has been trying for generations to sell Corvettes in Europe, but no matter how good the C5 and C6 were, they didn’t seem to hit it off with overseas buyers – at least in large numbers.

With the much-improved seventh-generation Stingray, Chevy obviously feels it has done its homework and has turned the C7 into a true world-class sports car, complete with a sophisticated and classy interior.

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I'll Trade you My Corvette for a Dump Trunk or Backhoe

In our daily search of interesting Corvette news comes this classified ad we found on FreeTruckShopper.com. Now many will do anything to get a Corvette and often those transactions are made by trade or barter instead of cash. So if you’re in the Lexington, KY area and own a dump truck or a backhoe, then this clean 1985 Corvette could be yours.

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Man Creates Slideshow to Convince Wife to Buy a Corvette Z06

From the “Why didn’t I think of that?” category comes the following story.

Seems Roy El-Rayes of Texas wanted to buy a Corvette Z06 (who wouldn’t?), but like all good husbands, he knew he had to run it by the boss first so he created a 13-slide presentation to make his case to his wife.

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Criswell Corvette's National Corvette Specialist Mike Furman Joins CorvetteBlogger's Advertising Family

CorvetteBlogger is pleased to announce that Mike Furman, the National Corvette Specialist at Criswell Corvette in Gaithersburg, MD has joined our family of sponsors. Mike has been selling Corvettes for over 34 years and he is ready to help you with your next Corvette purchase.

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Classic Corvette Dealer Investigated over Double VINs

Investigators with the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s Vehicle Theft Unit served a search warrant on Mershon’s World of Cars last week as part of an ongoing investigation that was triggered when one Vehicle Identification Number was linked to two separate 1967 Corvettes.

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Overseas Buyer Scams Abound

by Keith Cornett on August 10, 2005

The most common scam we see on our classified ads site is from “buyers” requesting information from our sellers in an attempt to scam the car from the owner using counterfeit bank checks. Usually you can spot these scams based on the “buyers” poor use of the English language as well as a request for the sellers photos, location and the “last price” of the car. Many times the “buyer” will come right out and ask if the seller will take a “certified bank check drawn on a US bank”.

The “buyer” almost always uses a yahoo.com, yahoo.co.uk or other free email service and may post an international phone number.

Here is an example of request received buy one of these “buyers”:

MESSAGE:
Hello, please back to me if the vehicle is still for sale with present location, pictures and last asking price. Thanks

IP Address: 196.3.60.17

My Name is: carlos todd
My Email is: carol_autos@yahoo.com
My Telephone is: +4478976098767

I did a geographical lookup of the IP address and found the “buyer” to be located in Lago, Nigeria.

My favorite type of scam request is when these scammers cut and paste from a script that was given to them and either don’t realize what they are requesting or simply don’t care. After the above user sent through about 20 of these requests to our sellers (all of which were blocked), he sent this request to the seller of a 1985 coupe:

MESSAGE:
Hello, thanks for urgent reply accorded to this transaction. In reply state the total cost of our reservation bill for the whole periods of the delegates stay. We wish to inform you to state the cost in Euro currency to enable us to know the exact amount we are paying. Thanks

IP Address: 196.3.60.17

My Name is: carlos todd
My Email is: carol_autos@yahoo.com
My Telephone is: +4478976098767

Sellers should carefully scrutinize all communications from potential buyers and if there is something that doesn’t seem quite right, it probably isn’t.