The changeover from the C7 to the C8 Corvette will mean five weeks of downtime for the more than 300 workers who had just gotten a new lease on life after transferring to the GM assembly plant in Bowling Green from the company’s Lordstown, Ohio facility that is shutting down after 53 years.
During their initial testing of the 2020 Corvette Stingray, Motor Trend took an opportunity on their final day with the car to put it on a Mustang Dyno to see what kind of power the new LT2 V8 engine was making. The results were “out-of-this-world” as their first and subsequent tests found the car was making way more power than the 495-hp that GM advertises.
The best thing about my second job here at CorvetteBlogger is that it finally allows me to put the countless hours that I spend browsing online car marketplaces to good use. If I were closer to my prime-earning years and/or came into a large amount of cheddar cheese through the lottery, inheritance, or collecting the bounty on John Wick, the following Corvettes (and a few surprises) would be a must for my collection. Unfortunately, neither time travel nor any other means of augmenting income worked out for me this week. My loss is your gain as I decided to share my shopping list with my loyal readership instead of hoarding listings in hope of a long-shot cash infusion; enjoy!
National Corvette Museum officials are planning a big display for the 1954 Chevy known as the “Entombed Corvette” that has recently been donated to them.
We’ve told you before about this Corvette that, of course, is from the second year of production but is most significant for its unusual past.
Each week, Criswell Chevrolet’s Mike Furman delivers new Corvette Stingrays, Grand Sports, Z06s and ZR1s to his customers who come from all parts of the country to work with the nation’s top individual Corvette seller.
Mike opens this week’s Delivery Report with a request for patience regarding build starts on the C8 Corvette and anticipated deliveries once completed. It’s all going to happen so just hang in there! It’s a holiday weekend so Mike shares a few deliveries and then moves into the vintage and throwback photos. Let Mike know in our comments at the end which photos are your favorites!
Visit Mike’s facebook page for even more photos and videos of his new Corvette deliveries: CorvetteFurman.
Quick Shifts is a content feature here at CorvetteBlogger featuring links to Corvette and automotive-related stories of interest.
The weeks on the calendar that feature auto-shows are the hardest weeks to find unique content but we still managed to find some excellent things to share with our rabid readers! Check out these automotive quick shifts featuring a goodbye to the C7 ZR1, CCR’s Stu Cook’s questionable taste in cars, extra C8 price relief, reasons for the loss of the manual transmission, LT1 vs. LT2, Corvette Trivia, and Lingenfelter vs. the Blue Angels.
Putting your Corvette away for the winter is like Superman hanging up his cape until Spring because it’s cold outside…
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Several months ago, we shared information about the 2020 Corvette High Wing LPO option not being available with your 2020 Corvette when taking R8C Museum Delivery. The high wing option had generated a high level of interest following the reveal of the 2020 Corvette and many had hopes that the National Corvette Museum would be able to install the high wing for R8C delivery.
Thanks to the high level of dedication to their customers, GM and the National Corvette Museum worked together to come up with a solution. While you could always take R8C delivery without the high wing and order it separately for later installation, you can now have the high wing already installed on your 2020 Corvette when you take delivery at the NCM!
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Back in July we shared General Motors’ announcement that the Tonawanda, NY engine plant would produce the 495hp LT2 engine for the 2020+ Corvette.
During that July press conference in New York, Mark Ruess mentioned a “Tonawanda Pride” sticker that would adorn the rocker covers on each LT2. Earlier this week we gained some more insight about that throwback sticker during Chevrolet’s Powertrain Briefing at their Performance and Racing Center.
In honor of SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) and all of the aftermarket insanity that it entails we wanted to poll our loyal readers about their go-to tuner when they want even more speed and power extracted from their Corvette?
There are a lot of choices out there and we can’t possibly include them all but we will narrow it down to the most well-known ones for your consideration.
