Category: Corvette News

July 26, 2012 No Responses

Corvette to serve as pace car for Brickyard 400

INDIANAPOLIS — Chevrolet will use a new Corvette as this year’s pace car for the Brickyard 400. The Corvette ZO6 will be driven by Hollywood star Ron Howard and will top out at 198 mph. Camaros will be used as...
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July 25, 2012 No Responses

Mayor creates parking space for Corvette after getting ticket

Pays $20 ticket for illegal parking Friday by Caitlin Huston Pharos-Tribune LOGANSPORT — A large yellow parking space with a sign reading “Mayor Parking Only” turned up in an area previously reserved for police squad cars Monday morning after Mayor...
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July 23, 2012 No Responses

The “Grand Sport” of Cooking

By Rory ReidMonday, 23rd July 2012 The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is good for many things; posing in, drifting, driving fast — oh and cooking. No, seriously. The car is powered by an enormous 6.2-litre V8 engine that chucks out...
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July 23, 2012 No Responses

Paul Comeau of the Corvette Shop – 1967 Split Window custom

There is a local myth out there. Some say they have seen it, while others have only heard about it. I am one who has seen it, from its inception, and Paul Comeau of the Corvette Shop built it. The...
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July 23, 2012 No Responses

AutoNation Chief Believes Auto Financing Availability Is Back to Pre-Recession Conditions

By Nick Zulovich, EditorJuly 23, 2012 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Continuing a run of positive news in connection with auto financing, AutoNation chairman and chief executive officer Mike Jackson believes conditions are “fully back” to where they back six ye...
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July 23, 2012 No Responses

Magnussen and Garcia take GT points lead with runner-up finish at Mosport

BOWMANVILLE, Ontario, Canada, July 22, 2012 – Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen scored their fourth podium finish in five American Le Mans Series races in today’s Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport. Their No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6.R...
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July 23, 2012 No Responses

Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen scored their fourth podium finish in five American Le Mans Series races

Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen scored their fourth podium finish in five American Le Mans Series races in today’s Mobil 1 presents the Grand Prix of Mosport. Garcia and Magnussen’s runner-up finish vaulted them into the lead in the GT...
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July 20, 2012 No Responses

@150mph General Motor’s CFO Dan Ammann Shows He Is No Bean Counter

by Mitch Talley on July 20, 2012 Photo Credit: Reuters/Rebecca Cook If General Motors, and therefore Corvette, are to thrive, it will likely take more employees like Dan Ammann. Named the chief financial officer of the new GM last year,...
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July 20, 2012 No Responses

Fort McMurray lottery winner has sights set on Corvette and Vegas trip

Video here. EDMONTON – A Fort McMurray man who purchased a lottery ticket on a notoriously unlucky date is now planning his retirement after winning more than $21 million in the Lotto Max jackpot. Chris Fowler, 55, bought an $11...
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July 20, 2012 No Responses

A man and his car: Vietnam veteran credits Corvette for getting him through the war

Published: Friday, July 20, 2012, 11:27 AM By Kyle Campbell | kcampbe8@mlive.com   Joe Munch of Hampton Township behind the wheel of his 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Munch pulled the car out of storage about three months...
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