[PODCAST] Corvette Today #260 – We Celebrate the Career of Exterior Design Manager, Kirk Bennion!

Apr 7, 2025

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[PODCAST] Corvette Today #260 - We Celebrate the Career of Exterior Design Manager, Kirk Bennion!

This week on the Corvette Today Podcast, your host Steve Garrett talks with former Corvette Exterior Design Manager Kirk Bennion about this career at General Motors in which most was spent during that time with the Corvette and Camaro teams. Kirk was let go from GM along with Corvette Product Marketing Manager Harlan Charles in late January, so this is one of the first times since that event that we’ve heard from him in his own words.

In this special episode of CORVETTE TODAY, we celebrate the career of Corvette’s Exterior Design Manager, Kirk Bennion.

Kirk spent 41 years at General Motors and 37 year with Corvette. Your CORVETTE TODAY host Steve Garrett, reminisces with Kirk about his career, how he got his job at General Motors, how he started working on Corvette and the development of the C5, C6, C7 and C8 Corvettes!

Kirk shares some of his favorite stories about Corvette and GM and talks about some of the icons he’s worked with over the years as well.

It’s another very special edition of CORVETTE TODAY that you don’t want to miss!

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