For nearly 35 years, the center of the Chevrolet Corvette world is Bowling Green, Kentucky, but the assembly plant has never produced a Corvette Stingray until the introduction of the C7 model last year. GM had to give the Bowling Green Assembly Plant a top-to-bottom renovation to build its cutting edge sports car, and the Velocity Channel’s How it’s Made: Dream Cars series took an inside peek at this Corvette mecca.
It all starts with the Geometry Symmetry Tool on the chassis of the Corvette Stingray, assembling the “tunnel” structure before doing a 180-degree flip to be welded together. The welding is all done via robots, which complete the job in about two and a half minutes. From there, it’s off to get the aluminum chassis all together so that the Corvette starts to resemble, well, a Corvette. Then it’s time for more welding, more assembly, and when all is said and done, [...]
Shirley Veine, 82, isn’t your average granny. She doesn’t drive a 1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette, nor does she believe old people should be cooped up in a nursing home watching repeats of the “The Price Is Right.” Instead, she enjoys the fast life — and she proved it last weekend by racing her 2000 C5 Chevrolet Corvette to 171 mph along a two-lane highway.
The feat was accomplished during the Sun Valley Road Rally near Ketchum, Idaho — an event that closes down Highway 75 and allows competitors to open up their machines. Last year was Veine’s first attempt, and she took her ‘Vette to an impressive 166 mph. But this year, she wanted even more:
“We put headers and a larger air intake valve on it,” she said during a local radio interview the week prior to the race. “They put it on the dyno last Thursday and she got up to 181.”
[...]By: Paulo Acoba | Art of Gears
Callaway and their Corvette packages have always taken us by surprise every time they announce a new iteration of what Corvette has blessed us with. According to their official press release that various forums and fans on Facebook got the privilege of seeing earlier today (July 28, 2015) Callaway has taken the 2015 Corvette Z06 and produced their most powerful Corvette to date. The 2015 Callaway Corvette makes a whopping 757 HP and 777 lb-ft of torque (a stock Z06 has 650 HP/650lb-ft of torque.) In case you’re too lazy to do the arithmetic, that’s an increase of 107 HP/127 lb-ft of torque.
Want to wipe the floor with a Nissan GT-R or a Pagani Huayra? This Callaway Z06 will hit 60 MPH in 2.8 [...]
Well, it’s not a landspeeder, but it’ll do.
A Pennsylvania man had this 1974 Corvette airbrushed into a driving Star Wars poster in the late ’70s — and now it’s available on eBay to the highest bidder.
According to the auction, the man — who has since passed away and is not the seller — spent over 1,000 hours on the car.
Below, in italics, you can read the official description of the car from the eBay listing.
This is a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette that was airbrushed in the late 1970’s with the Star Wars theme. A Uniontown(pa) man has created an award-winning automotive version of Star Wars in 1977. Every body panel was hand airbrushed freestyle using many candy apples,pearl, purples, silvers, reds, blues, yellows, and many more. 20 coats of hand rubbed lacquer. The paint has held up very well. There are [...]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo paid a brief visit this afternoon to the Syracuse Nationals car show to announce that show organizers had signed a contract to keep the show at the state fairgrounds for at least the next five years.
Cuomo, an avid car enthusiast, spend a few minutes wandering among classic cars inside the fair’s Horticulture Building before conducting a brief news conference with reporters. Then aides rushed him off for a dinner with local government and business leaders.
Cuomo may not have spent much time at the car show, but his blue 1975 Corvette was on display all day in the Center of Progress Building. Cuomo joked with reporters that he was considering having one of the artists at the car show paint pinstripes on his Corvette, which he acquired during college.
Cuomo, whose weakness for American muscle cars [...]
