Mecum’s Indianapolis sale wrapped up a little over a week ago and the numbers are in. The 32nd annual Spring Classic brought in a record $70.4 million with 1,189 cars finding new owners. While the Steven Juliano collection headlined the show, Corvettes had a strong showing in Indy commanding a total of $4,856,775 in sales. Once again, our good friend Marshall Fancher from Vette-N-Vestments has summarized the results for our perusal and analysis.
The Top 12 Corvette Sales of Mecum Indy 2019
Tuners Could Have Trouble Modding the C8 Mid-Engine Corvette
Will the C8 Mid-Engine Corvette be difficult for 3rd-party tuners to modify? If you look at the direction that the automaker has taken the last couple of years with its anti-hacking processes, the answer is yes.
Bloomington Gold Seeking Corvettes for Special Displays
As the Bloomington Gold team puts the final touches on the 2019 event, they’re putting the call out for more cars to potentially be included in some of their special displays. The Granddaddy of Corvette shows will make its 5th appearance at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway June 20-22nd.
Corvettes on Craigslist: 1998 Fairway Green C5 Convertible with a Power Hard Top
We told you just a few days ago about a rare Fairway Green C5 Corvette for sale for less than $10,000 in Florida.
Now we’ve found another one that’s even more rare, and a reader alerted us to a third example for sale as well.
First, a little background.
[VIDEO] Parents Want Answers After a Teen Driving a C7 Corvette Hits and Injures Two Students
A Texas student hit by a speeding Corvette this week still hopes to pick up his diploma with his classmates at graduation this Friday, despite being in the intensive care unit with a broken leg and several scrapes on his body.
Giovanni Landeros’ family is upset that the El Paso Police Department is not making an arrest in the case. They say he and another Pebble Hills High School student were injured by the Corvette, caught on home surveillance video speeding down the street on Charles Foster Avenue and John Hayes Street in East El Paso at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
“If you look at the footage you can see the Corvette barreling down the road and all the other cars look like they are at a standstill that’s how this kid was going,” says Landeros’ uncle, Sean Dixon.
Giovanni’s family believes another Pebble Hill student was driving the Corvette and they want his parents held responsible for the incident.
“First and foremost, the parents should be to blame because they got their kid a weapon,” Dixon says. “You get an 18-year-old a Corvette that he can’t control … someone needs to be held accountable.”
Police are telling local media a traffic report was filed but the crash was not handled as a crime and the department’s Special Traffic Investigators were not called to the scene.
Source:
ktsm.com
Related:
[ACCIDENT] 2005 Corvette Goes Airborne and Loses Engine in Kentucky Crash
[ACCIDENT] Fire Burns Down HBO Set Destroying Over 20 Rare 1990 Chevrolet Vehicles
[ACCIDENT] Corvette Stingray Driver Takes A Wrong Turn and Ends up in Texas Ditch
[PICS] The C8 Mid-Engine Corvette Rendered in Yellow
One of the color surprises for the C8 Corvette is that Chevy is ready to swap out Corvette Racing Yellow first introduced in 2016 for a new shade called “Accelerate Yellow”. We know how important Yellow is to the Corvette Design team as it’s now a given that the highest profile yellow Corvettes will be the new C8.Rs that will most likely see their first track action next January at the Rolex 24 at Daytona just as the first C8 street cars begin shipping.
While we don’t yet have anything new to share on the new Yellow exterior, we do have a couple new renderings of C8 Corvettes in Yellow that can help us visualize the color on the Mid-Engine body.
Corvette Racing at Le Mans: Dress Rehearsal for 20th Appearance
Pair of Corvettes set for eight hours of running at famed Circuit de la Sarthe
DETROIT (May 28, 2019) – Corvette Racing is back across the Atlantic once again for a landmark appearance at the 24 Hours of Le Mans – its 20th consecutive appearance at the historic French endurance race.
Canadian Man Donates His 1980 Corvette to Support Mental Health Care
Joe Di Carlo has owned his black 1980 Corvette since just before he graduated from high school in 1985.
Now, some 34 years later, he’s decided to donate his pride and joy to a local youth counseling and mental health support agency called Maryvale in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
[PICS] FVS Renders a Patriotic C8 Mid-Engine Corvette for Memorial Day
FVS shared a new rendering of the C8 Mid-Engine Corvette and decided to give it a patriotic make-over in honor of Memorial Day.