July 11th official marked the 64th year of the Corvette as the 2017 Corvette model year began retail production 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 for.

The Bowling Green Assembly Plant ended 2016 Corvette production on June 27th and the plant had its first two-week summer break since the start of C7 production. During the last two weeks while the production line was shut down, the time was used to performance routine maintenance and some needed upgrades prior to the 2017 Corvette models starting.

I can tell already that production of the 2017 Corvettes will be anything but routine and here is why.

When production of [...]