Category: Corvette News

July 15, 2016 No Responses

Corvette Mike’s Carl Pugh on Velocity Channel’s Wheeler Dealers

Once again, the Corvette Mike team (but because of edits, just Carl), helped out our friends at Velocity Channel (http://www.velocity.com/tv-shows/wheeler-dealers/). For the season premiere of Wheeler Dealers, which first aired on Wednesday, June 29 but is repeating all this month,...
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July 14, 2016 No Responses

Jay Leno Races His C6 Corvette Against An IHRA Dragster

Jay Leno is back with Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC, and last night’s episode was a doozie. Leno decided to make an attempt at taking down an all-out, IHRA drag racer in his C6 Corvette. Spoiler alert, he doesn’t win....
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July 14, 2016 No Responses

2017 Corvette Model Year Production Has Begun!

July 11th official marked the 64th year of the Corvette as the 2017 Corvette model year began retail production at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. The plant has been building the 2017 model year Corvettes for a few months now...
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July 13, 2016 No Responses

How a Rare 1963 Corvette Split Window Remained an Object of Desire

Stan Finsilver, 67, a commercial real-estate executive from Orchard Lake, Mich., on his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette split window coupe, as told to A.J. Baime. I grew up in Detroit. I went to Vernor Elementary School, named after Detroit’s famous Vernors...
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July 12, 2016 No Responses

Restored or restomodded Corvette? Denver auction demonstrates appeal of both

Denver top sellers included this restored 1963 Corvette (L) and this restomodded 1957 Corvette (R). Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Conventional wisdom says that a restored-to-original-specifications car will almost always retain more value than a restomod, wh...
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July 11, 2016 No Responses

How to Add Power Windows to a 1963-1967 Corvette

Power Trip: Adding power windows to a C2 adds convenience and value View Full Gallery When you run the numbers year by year, the RPO A31 Power Windows option wasn’t checked on most customers’ option sheets during the C2 years,...
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July 8, 2016 No Responses

The Corvette Is Actually More Affordable Than It Was 30 Years Ago

Yesterday, I wrote about how a new study showed that the average American can no longer comfortably afford an average-priced car. This got me thinking about exactly when cars got so damn expensive, which is what led me to Corvettes,...
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July 7, 2016 No Responses

Thundering Thursday – Zora Spied?

Has the rumored mid-engined Corvette been captured on film (well memory card)? First, the “Zora” trademark filing. Then the spy shots of a mid-engine dressed Holden Commodore hit the internet. Then, glimpses of some clear mid-engine Corvette renderings com...
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July 6, 2016 No Responses

Happy 53rd Birthday Corvette!

It was 63 years ago today, June 30, 1953, that the first production Corvettes rolled down Chevrolet’s Flint, Michigan assembly line. Little did they know then what they had started. The first cars were simple enough, as they came without...
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July 6, 2016 No Responses

Long-lost Briggs Cunningham Corvette that raced at Le Mans finally restored

Follow Viknesh Add to circle [% } %] [% }); %] A 1960 Chevrolet Corvette long thought lost to history was finally found in 2012. The car was one of three Corvettes fielded in the 1960 24 Hours of Le...
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