Even though the National Corvette Museum has been closed for some time due to the Coronavirus, they’ve still been busily working to complete their updated Performance Gallery. Back in December we first told you about this exciting new project and next week it’ll be revealed online.
The intent of the redesign was to update the area “with a design that truly reflects the sleek and stylish nature of America’s favorite sports car.” The Performance Gallery was the one area of the museum that had been in existence since the NCM’s grand opening in 1994.
Since we can’t go to the museum right now, they’re offering online opportunities to be the first to lay eyes on the revamped exhibit and help the museum at the same time. For a $100 donation, you can join the NCM’s Curator, Derek Moore, on an exclusive behind the scenes virtual tour of the renovated E. Pierce Marshall Memorial Performance Gallery. The registration fee gets you access to the Zoom webinar, behind the scenes gallery access, and the ability to ask questions during the presentation. As a bonus, E. Pierce Marshall, Jr. will be joining the online event. He’ll be speaking about his Corvette passion, Corvette Racing, and how his dad’s love of racing culminated with the naming of the revised exhibit.
The online reveal will take place next Thursday, May 7th at 11am Central time. This cool opportunity will be limited to the first 100 registrants. Click here to register. Remember that the $100 donation is tax-deductible and counts toward your Winner’s Circle total for this year.
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National Corvette Museum
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Dear Steve,
Thanks for a great article. This photo was well-done as the info. It is absolutely amazing how well the Torch Red Color shows of the car from different angles and locations to make the car look fast and appear to be in motion even within the confines of a 2-dimensional photograph. However, my adrenaline gets going before I know it when I gaze upon the 5.5 liter C8 race car. There is something about a flat-plane crank with its Ferrari history that is very exciting. While the Corvette doesn’t aspire to be an, ” ‘egg…” car, the platform that it can now work with to create more C8’s with the coming Z06 and onward, is in and of itself, very exciting! AF
Corvette needs the same kind of cheering section Carrol Shelby always had. Corvette was the car to beat back on the 1950s & 1960s and a Le Mons winner with a bad ticker that didn’t get a job with GM when Dontov hew planned the mid engine, did, Shelby built a mid engine car for Ford that eventually beat Ferrari. Corporate driven sales goals delayed Corvettes dominance at Le Mons. The Museum is the best place in the to tell the story of the dominance of Corvette in Racing
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