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Each week, Criswell Chevrolet’s Mike Furman delivers new Corvette Stingray, Grand Sports and Z06s to his customers who come from all parts of the country to work with the nation’s top Corvette seller. In this week’s Delivery Dispatch, Mike reminisces about some previous Corvettes that crossed his path over the years including a 1958 Corvette he appraised back in 1989. Mike offers up many new Corvette deliveries this week and his batch of...
Rumor has it Chevy is working on a mid-engine Corvette, perhaps just two years away. If that’s too long for you to wait, just take a look at this stunning mid-engine Corvette concept designed by The Aria Group, a two-decade-old design firm and fabrication company that builds concept cars for major automakers. The Aria Group was co-founded by Charles Taylor, who just happens to be the son of legendary GM designer Ed Taylor, whose...
Photo Credit: king5.com All’s well that ends well for the owner of this yellow 1976 Corvette. Tom Nali of Tacoma, Washington recently left his dream car at City Glass in his hometown to have the weather stripping replaced. When he got the car back several months later (we wonder why it took so long for such a simple job), the new stripping was already coming off. A second trip to City Glass to do...
This 1967 Corvette convertible has been sitting patiently for the past 27 years, hoping for someone to get it on the road again. Now, thanks to an eBay listing that expires Sunday, someone may have the chance to restore or resto-mod this car that had the same owner for the past 45 years. The second owner bought it in 1971 and drove it in South Carolina until 1989, when he parked it for the...
I always enjoy seeing old photos of Corvettes in their vintage settings, which for me harkins back to a somewhat more innocent time for America. So why not use the occasion to kick off a new weekly series of posts with vintage pictures of Corvettes! This 1963 Corvette Sting Ray Convertible and the young lady sitting on the hood was captured at Weeki Wachee Springs in Florida. Click here to see a larger version...
This is an Ermine White 1963 Corvette Sting Ray Sport Coupe burning a little rubber. Some would say that the C2 model which featured both a Coupe and Convertible body style was the best design ever for the Corvette. It’s hard not to agree, but we just think they should be driven like this guy was doing. Burning a little rubber. And when we say little rubber, check out those skinny bias ply tires...
Today’s vintage picture features two culture icons, the 1963 split window Corvette coupe and actor William Shatner. Without knowing the date, it’s hard to say exactly what Shatner was working on at the time the photo was taken. From Wikipedia, we know that he was making appearances in both TV shows and movies in 1962-1963 including The Outer Limits and Route 66. But it was in 1966 that he assumed his most famous...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
