DETROIT —General Motors is recalling 1,939 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray cars in the U.S. with the FE1 or FE3 suspension to repair a possible insufficient weld in the rear shocks that could lead to a fracture and/or reduce the shocks’ service life, the automaker said on Friday. Chevrolet dealers will…
Sinkhole Swallows 8 Cars At National Corvette Museum
Snow is flying. Ice is accumulating. Roads are impassable. Power is out. And the story of the day that’s getting more attention than the weather on social media is this: “Eight Corvettes Swallowed By Massive Sinkhole At National Corvette Museum.” () Here’s how the museum in Bowling Green, Ky., to…
Bloomington Gold Announces Changes to SURVIVOR Judging Program
by Steve Burns on February 18, 2014 via corvetteblogger.com Back in 1990 Bloomington Gold introduced their SURVIVOR award for original, unrestored Corvettes. Award winners would need to be 20 years old, complete a short road test, and be at least 50% unrestored in 3 of 4 categories. Now, as we…
National Corvette Museum begins pulling cars from sinkhole
Bowling Green, KY (CNN) – All those cars that were swallowed up by the huge sinkhole that opened up inside the National Corvette Museum won’t be lost. Eight cars in all went down when the sinkhole opened up last month. Museum officials have brought in heavy equipment to start removing…
Mallett Hammer Z06 Corvette last car pulled from Kentucky sinkhole
The mangled remains of a powerful Corvette — barely recognizable to its former owner — were pulled from the depths of a sinkhole at a Kentucky museum Wednesday, completing weeks of painstaking work to retrieve eight classic cars that were gobbled up by the gaping hole. The 2001 Mallett Hammer…
Corvette Z06 Convertible Debuts in New York
From the start, Tadge Juechter and his team designed the C7 Corvette with a no-compromises convertible in mind. The result of that forethought is a Corvette Z06 convertible that is almost as light as the Z06 coupe and just as powerful. Chevy introduced us to the car last night…
2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Test Drive
If you’ve been itching to replace that 2002 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 convertible sitting in the garage, I hate to break it to you, but the 2014 model probably isn’t for you. Unlike its predecessor, which was a potent but fully outfitted sports car, the all-new Z/28 is a stripped-down, street-legal…
GM Recall: Chevrolet Corvette – 2005 – 2007
Early this morning, General Motors announced five separate recalls, affecting roughly 2.7 million Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Pontiac, and Saturn vehicles from the 2004 to 2015 model years. One of the recalls is so serious that GM has asked owners to stop driving the vehicles immediately. RECALL #2: 2005-2007 Chevrolet…
Corvette Museum likely to keep part of sinkhole
Visitors to The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, can learn a lot about the classic American sports car. These days, they can also get a lesson in making lemonade from life’s lemons. When a sinkhole opened up under an exhibit area in the wee hours of February 12,…
Man’s prized ’79 Corvette found 33 years after it went missing in Detroit
Detroit — A man’s prized Corvette that was stolen three decades ago in Detroit has been found in Mississippi. George Talley says he was watching TV last week when AAA called to say his 1979 Corvette had been found. Talley tells WXYZ-TV he was told the car still runs, has…