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![[PIC] C6 Corvette Driver is Clocked Speeding at 131 MPH in South Dakota](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070220_18-480x360.jpg)
Photo Credit: South Dakota Highway Patrol
A C6 Corvette owner will be making a healthy donation to the state of South Dakota after he was caught speeding at 131 mph on Interstate 29 by a trooper on the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol shared the Trooper’s photo to their Facebook page that shows the silver C6 Corvette from behind.
![[PICS] Marine Corp Veteran Is All Smiles After Taking Delivery of His 2020 Corvette](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070220_13-480x360.jpg)
Photo Credits: Tony Kroll
If anyone deserves a new Corvette, it’s a man who served his country in the armed forces.
When Tony Z. Kroll’s father returned from a stint with the Marine Corps in 1968, he had a 1959 Corvette waiting on him, a coming home present courtesy of his brother and parents.
![[PICS] Throwback Thursday: Corvette Central Celebrates 45th Anniversary](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070220_7-505x360.jpg)
Photo Credits: Corvette Central
Our friends at Corvette Central are celebrating their 45th anniversary of manufacturing and supplying high-quality Corvette parts to customers around the world. We recently received an email from the company that offers a look back at their history and the journey that began with a guy in the tool and die business who needed parts for his 1956 Corvette.
2009 Pontiac Solstice Coupe
Electric vehicles only accounted for 1.9% of new vehicle sales in 2019, down from an all-time high of just 2.1% the year prior. This was all in spite of an influx of new zero-emission vehicles hitting the market year-over-year. The EV market’s extremely limited reach hasn’t detoured General Motors from investing $20 billion in the technology in an attempt to supplant Tesla as the market’s go-to supplier of zero-emission vehicles.
![[VIDEO] GM Determines the Cause of the Engine Failure in YouTuber’s C8 Corvette](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070220_3-585x344.jpg)
Earlier this week we brought you the story of Jake Spiczka’s 2020 Corvette whose engine seized up while it was been driven by a couple of YouTubers. During an inspection of the car at the dealership, metal shavings were found in the oil filter. As the data logs showed it wasn’t a driver error, GM requested the engine be sent to Detroit where it was inspected by engineers.
![[PICS] ‘Subtle’ C8 Corvette Widebody Rendering by Monaco Auto Design](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070220_1-452x360.jpg)
Photo Credit: Monaco Auto Design
Even with the world slowed down by coronavirus, the aftermarket has still been busy creating different looks for the new mid-engine Corvette.
The latest example comes from Instagram courtesy of Monaco Auto Design.
Their rendering of a widebody 2020 Corvette is one of the more mild creations we’ve featured, with the major changes being the wide, add-ons fender wells at the rear and the thin, vertical air intakes at the front.
![[VIDEO] IndyCar Racer Josef Newgarden Tours the Corvette Assembly Plant](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070120_16-585x328.jpg)
Back in February before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the USA, IndyCar racer Josef Newgarden toured the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, KY where he would have the opportunity to see his own personal mid-engine Corvette being built.
Josef tours the factory with the plant’s communications manager Rachel Bagshaw and we see a bit of the inside of the administration building first before heading out onto the assembly plant floor.
With each passing day it seems like the C6 Corvette ZR1 has become the “forgotten icon” in Chevy’s performance portfolio. Once upon a time, the demand for the first supercharged Corvette was all-consuming, but just 10 years after its introduction, you can find low mileage examples at half of the car’s original MSRP of $113,000.
With all the uncertainty surrounding Corvette production over the last few months and with many owners not knowing if their 2020 Corvette orders will be produced, we’ve been waiting for Chevrolet to offer “guidance” to dealers on this issue. Today, dealers received an update from General Motors and it looks to be exactly what we’ve been hearing up until this point.
![[VIDEO] 1988 ‘Miss America’ Corvette Donated to the National Corvette Museum](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/07/070120_2-585x351.jpg)
Chevrolet and the Miss America Pageant go together like baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie!
That’s why it was appropriate that Monday, on the 67th birthday of the Corvette, the National Corvette Museum rolled out its latest donation – a dark blue metallic 1988 Corvette convertible that was one of five Miss America show cars that Chevrolet would take on the auto show circuit that year, promoting their sponsorship of the pageant.