A BLOG for the Latest Corvettes: C8, C7 Stingray, C7, C6 Z06, Grand Sport, ZR1 and C5 / Z06!
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During the run-up to the 2020 Rolex 24 at Daytona, we were invited to join other journalists for a quick Q&A inside the Corvette Racing garage on Saturday morning before the race. Joining us from the racing team was Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan and Team Manager Ben Johnson.
As a quick aside, I’m trying out a few different methods to capture video in my quest to downsize the amount of equipment I carry and I shot this video with a GoPro.
If you aren’t someone who still subscribes to the print version of Car and Driver, you really should give it another look! More than any other monthly automotive publication, C&D saves some of its best columns and features for actual magazine pages. The “Backfires” section of the most recent issue featured a suggestion from a reader which we have approximately recreated below:
Graphic inspired by Car and Driver Magazine
The gist of Paul from Winterbourne, Ontario’s (slightly west of Toronto if you were curious) suggestion is that he would like to see a value piece added to C&D’s excellent annual Lightning Lap feature (which is worth the subscription price by itself).
![[PIC] Iconic ‘Zora Head’ Logo Found on the 2020 Corvette](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/01/012920_3-480x360.jpg)
When the C8 Corvette prototype made its now-famous drive through New York City with Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter and GM CEO Mary Barra last April, it was discovered that the team had placed small photos of the Corvette’s first chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov all around the car.
We further learned that these “Zora Head” stickers were used by the Corvette Team members in Detroit to restrict access to the med-engine cars as they were undergoing development.
“Let the buyer beware” was never truer than in the case of these two ads, trying to sell C8 wheels that aren’t even available to the general public yet.
These two jokesters are obviously having a little fun – we hope – at the expense of the GM employee – we assume – who discovered his 2020 Corvette Stingray left without its tires and wheels while parked on a Detroit street last week.
![[ACCIDENT] Owner Starts Up His C3 Corvette that Survived a Building Fire in Illinois](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/01/012820_9-542x360.jpg)
Photo Credit: Dave Hinton / Rantoul Press
This mid-1970s Corvette coupe took a cue from the old slogan for Timex watches: It took a licking and kept on ticking.
The white Corvette had taken a ride on an industrial elevator so it could be stored on the second floor of a historic building in Rantoul, Ill., where a mechanic’s garage had once operated for decades.
Photo Credit: CorvetteImages.com
Well folks, after suffering more delays and rewrites than Avatar II, we are proud to present the second half list of CorvetteBlogger’s Best Corvettes from Each Generation. In Part I, we examined the first four generations of America’s Sports Car. Today we are going to take a look at C’s five through seven.
![[PIC] The Corvette Assembly Plant Receives a C8 Corvette Graphics Makeover](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/01/012820_1c-491x360.jpg)
Photo Credit: Dan Squire
With the arrival of the C7 Corvette in 2013, Chevrolet added graphics of the car to the Corvette Assembly Plant’s exterior wall that faces Interstate 65. Now that the C8 Corvette is readying production, Chevrolet has given the exterior a C8 Corvette makeover with four new graphics on the wall.
![[VIDEO] How It’s Made: MFG Creates Composite Parts for the C8 Corvette](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/01/012720_10-585x329.jpg)
Screenshot Credit: Kurt Fink
A company in Ashtabula, OH has been part of the Corvette since the very beginning. It was Robert Morrison’s company called Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) that built the first fiberglass panels for the 1953 Corvette. I featured the story in my book Corvette Special Editions, and you can read a quick version of MFG’s role in building the first Corvettes at the company’s website.
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Happy Monday, Corvette fans!
And I should also say Happy New Year!
Our weekly Midyear Monday feature took a short break over the holidays and I meant to get it going again sooner than today but sometimes the best-laid plans go awry. But the good news is we’re back with another exciting gallery for those that love the 1963-1967 Corvettes.
Would you be reluctant to drive a perfectly restored C1 Corvette, afraid some other driver was going to run into you or a rock might fly up and chip the paint on the front end?
Well, here’s a solution for you, Mr. Worry Wart.
The owner of this ultra-low mileage 1957 Corvette, located in Tipp City, Ohio, says the car runs and drives “great” after he had the original motor professionally redone by a local Corvette expert.