[RIDES] C8 Corvette Owner Celebrates Surpassing 100,000 Miles

Oct 19, 2026

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[RIDES] C8 Corvette Owner Celebrates Surpassing 100,000 Miles

A New Jersey Corvette owner is celebrating a huge milestone in his C8 Corvette that few owners will ever see.

The milestone? How about an odometer that just surpassed 100,000 miles!

The owner is Will Rockwell, and we remembered his ‘C8VETTE’ vanity license plate from a blog post we did way back in 2022 when he was celebrating 30K-miles on the car.

Will got an early build with VIN 3085 and it was one of the first 2020 Corvette delivered in New Jersey. Will’s Stingray was absolutely a no-frills build – a Corvette Stingray 1LT Coupe with zero options. Back in 2000, the starting price of the C8 mid-engine Corvette was $58,900 with a $1,095 Delivery Freight Charge (DFC) included to make the entire car just $59,995.

In that 100,000-mile lifespan, the owner says he has had just one major issue with the car – lifter failure at 90,000 miles. Despite the car being out-of-warranty, GM said that shouldn’t have happened and covered 50% of the repair which is something you never hear of, so kudos to GM for that.

And if you’re thinking that the lifter failure was due to running in V4 mode, the owner replies and says, “They said the lifters that failed were not V4 lifters, they were lifters 4 and 6.”

Another positive report is the interior of the car, which he says has held up remarkably well during his tenure. “No wrinkles, no scuffs. It looks pretty much like it did when it was brand new,” he says. One interior feature he really loves is the Stingray’s Great Wall of Buttons which he claims will be more appreciated by collectors as the car gets older.

And finally, the owner likes how the car is received by the public. “Sometimes I think about selling the car, and then someone will come up in a parking lot and say ‘What is that?’”