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1968 Corvette Show Display

It’s time for Throwback Thursday where we feature vintage photos of Corvettes. Here’s a great line up of Corvettes on display at a car show in 1968. Click to view a larger version of this 1968 car show display. The Corvette had turned 15 years old when Chevrolet introduced the 1968 model, the first of the C3s. During that time span, a number of remarkable Corvette concepts were built. We note that each model...

Testing a 1963 Corvette Z06 Prototype at Sebring

It’s time for Throwback Thursday where we feature vintage photos of Corvettes. Today’s picture features a 1963 Z06 Mule and Chief Corvette engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov. Click to view a larger version of Zora and this 1963 Corvette Z06 mule Here’s an interesting photo we pulled from our Zora photo archive at Pinterest. This 1963 Corvette Z06 prototype has an early midyear front clip but the doors have coves which were such a prominent design...

VP Joe Biden Drives his 1967 Corvette on Jay Leno’s Garage

The new season for Jay Leno’s Garage starts on November 9th and we are starting to see some promos of the upcoming episodes including this one featuring Vice President Joe Biden and his one-owner 1967 Corvette Sting Ray. In this five minute preview, Jay Leno is joined by Joe Biden at the Secret Service facility outside of Washington D.C. where he is reunited with his 1967 midyear. Joe says the Secret Service won’t let...

Midyear Monday! (44 Corvette photos)

It feels like we’ve been in a whirlwind of Corvette events the last few weeks as we’ve shared special editions of Midyear Monday from The Woodward Dream Cruise and the 2016 Corvettes at Carlisle. So it’s equally great that a three day weekend helps kick off our September but we’re not going to rest on this Monday. Nope, our readers have made it clear that they love Midyear Mondays as much as we do....

Show Update Arnold Chevrolet Corvette All Car Show Oct 16, 2016

    670 Montauk Highway, West Babylon NY 11704 Our Corvette all car show is now October 16, 2016! Arnold Chevrolet has been our sponsor dealership since 1999. Our shows normally have 100-140 cars, last years show was 140 cars of all makes and models. We will have live music Peter Mazzeo and the Hit Squad.      PETER MAZZEO & THE HIT SQUAD OUR INCREDIBLY TALENTED BAND MEMBERS INCLUDE: Band members from or formerly of: QUEEN, THE MUSIC OF LED ZEPPELIN, ALAN PARSONS...

1966 Tanker Corvette Headlines Canadian Concours d’Elegance

Photo Credit: Alyn Edwards, Driving You might not think a super rare Corvette would ever wind up in Canada. But you can see a “Tanker” 1966 Corvette at the Luxury Supercar Weekend and Canadian Concours D’elegance that winds up Sunday, Sept. 11 at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, British Columbia. The “Tanker” Corvette is one of only 66 Corvettes in 1966 that were built with option NO3 – a 36-gallon gas tank that nearly...

Mid Engine C8 Corvette to Come with Dual Clutch Auto Transmission Only

Photo Credit: Car & Driver Speculation is running rampant on the Internet these days about what’s believed to be the long-dreamed-about mid-engine C8 Corvette, predicted to be a 2019 model. Car & Driver’s Don Sherman believes the new Corvette will have just one transmission available when it comes out in less than two years – a dual-clutch automatic transmission (DCT) from Tremec. Sherman says Tremec – which supplies the manual transmission for the C7...

Saturday Morning Corvette Comic: Extreme Security Measures

Some Corvette owners take the security and safety of their cars to extremes. Sorry, Jim! Saturday Morning Corvette Comic: Honey I’m Going to Check the Mail Saturday Morning Corvette Comic: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Two People Arrested After 1963 Corvette Sting Ray is Recovered in Montana

That big sigh of relief you heard Thursday afternoon could have come from Glenn and Becky Nelson after their 1963 Corvette convertible was recovered safe and sound by the Lewis & Clark County Sheriff’s Office in Helena, Montana. Great job, guys! The Nelsons had reported their Daytona Blue Sting Ray missing on Monday morning after the car and the trailer it was in at a storage facility were gone. Sheriff Leo Dutton said Thursday...

Two Barn Find Corvettes Sold at Reno’s Hot August Nights Auction

Two old Corvettes made their way out of their dusty homes to become barn find stars at the recent MAG Auctions Hot August Nights in Reno, Nev. Butch Bockmier was trying to sell a red 1965 Corvette roadster that he had discovered at an estate in the Seattle area. “The previous owner, we believe, owned the car for over 50 years,” Bockmier told KOLO TV. “It was an absolute barn find. We had to...

Corvettes on eBay: Garage Find 1971 Corvette LT1 Convertible

Boy, does this 1971 Corvette LT1 bring back memories. Someone is going to have a lot of fun in this high-powered C3 Corvette if they have enough money to do the job right. Probably the only Corvette I ever owned that was really a true classic was an orange 1971 LT1 coupe that I ended up trading for a 2005 convertible to get a better road cruiser when I changed jobs and had to...

1966 Corvette Sting Ray Coupe to be Featured in Fast and Furious 8

Whenever there’s a “car movie” on the big screen, it’s definitely always more exciting for Corvette enthusiasts if there is one of “America’s Favorite Sports Car” in the scene. Well, Hollywood is getting ready for another rendition of the “Fast and Furious” series, and good news, “Fast 8” is going to feature a 1966 Rally Red Corvette. Chalk up a great reason to watch this movie when it hits the screens on April 14,...

2017 Corvette Model Year Production Begins Today

Today officially marks the 64th year of the Corvette as the 2017 Corvette model year begins retail production today at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. The plant has been building the 2017 model year Corvettes for a few months now as those cars get driven and analyzed by engineers as part of GM’s Captured Test Fleet. But for customers waiting on the new 2017 Corvette Grand Sport, this is the day they’ve been waiting...

Check Out this 1963 V-8-Powered Nova Sleeper

  Just because GM didn’t offer a Chevy II with a V-8 before 1964 didn’t mean you couldn’t buy one brand new. Soon after the car debuted in 1962, GM started producing the parts necessary to make the non-ordained marriage possible. That the conversion more than doubled the price of the car itself means dealer-converted models were exceedingly rare even when new.   Charles Pinchak’s V-8–powered 1963 is all about rarity but it has...