panrixx
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I own a Silver 2000 C5 Corvette, which I imported from the USA a couple of years ago.
I get sent information from a site called the Corvette Action Centre and thought that some members may find the following (shortened)extract interesting. Or maybe not!
Bowling Green is home to the world's only Corvette assembly plant, producing 148 of the sporty numbers each weekday ($44,600 to about $70,000 for a coupe, convertible and Z06 models).
Some people schedule a trip to see their vehicle coming together or kick in another $500 to pick it up from the National Corvette Museum across the road. Taking pictures inside the plant isn't allowed, but salvaged parts are for sale. How about a tail end of a Corvette for the downstairs game room?
In the plant you can see the so-called One and Only, a white '83 tucked away in the "gasoline alley" area, with its towering Mobil Oil sphere and Dale Earnhardt memorabilia.
Forty-three Corvettes were produced for testing that year, but General Motors — which had decided to make a major body style change — was unhappy with the results and destroyed all but one of the prototypes.
Corvette extended the 82 models while it continued working on a new design that later was proclaimed 1984 Car of the Year by Motor Trend magazine.
Corvette, name for a sleek British submarine chaser, has always added to Chevrolet's luster even though it's a tiny percentage of the automaker's sales.
Only 35,000 to 37,000 Corvettes a year are assembled by 900 hourly employees working a 6:12 a.m.-to-2:42 p.m. shift, but tour guide Alicia Vowels noted, "Every car is sold before it's made; either to an individual or a dealership."
It takes about 33 hours (three to five workdays) to complete a Corvette.
There are seven miles of conveyers, robots and engines dangling like meat in a packing plant, and the Dynamic Vehicle Test, where a worker revs the engine to 70 mph while a computer runs 800 tests in two minutes. Each car goes through a virtual storm in the Water Test Booth (12 gallons of water per second).
Judy Tarrence, on the job 23 years, is the lucky employee who takes several randomly selected cars each day onto nearby highways for a road test, listening for rattles and squeaks and putting them through a more intense water test (eight minutes instead of two).
"It's fun," said Tarrence. "My favorite car is the Z06," a high-performance Corvette with a retractable hard top and a 505-hp engine that can go from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds.
I get sent information from a site called the Corvette Action Centre and thought that some members may find the following (shortened)extract interesting. Or maybe not!
Bowling Green is home to the world's only Corvette assembly plant, producing 148 of the sporty numbers each weekday ($44,600 to about $70,000 for a coupe, convertible and Z06 models).
Some people schedule a trip to see their vehicle coming together or kick in another $500 to pick it up from the National Corvette Museum across the road. Taking pictures inside the plant isn't allowed, but salvaged parts are for sale. How about a tail end of a Corvette for the downstairs game room?
In the plant you can see the so-called One and Only, a white '83 tucked away in the "gasoline alley" area, with its towering Mobil Oil sphere and Dale Earnhardt memorabilia.
Forty-three Corvettes were produced for testing that year, but General Motors — which had decided to make a major body style change — was unhappy with the results and destroyed all but one of the prototypes.
Corvette extended the 82 models while it continued working on a new design that later was proclaimed 1984 Car of the Year by Motor Trend magazine.
Corvette, name for a sleek British submarine chaser, has always added to Chevrolet's luster even though it's a tiny percentage of the automaker's sales.
Only 35,000 to 37,000 Corvettes a year are assembled by 900 hourly employees working a 6:12 a.m.-to-2:42 p.m. shift, but tour guide Alicia Vowels noted, "Every car is sold before it's made; either to an individual or a dealership."
It takes about 33 hours (three to five workdays) to complete a Corvette.
There are seven miles of conveyers, robots and engines dangling like meat in a packing plant, and the Dynamic Vehicle Test, where a worker revs the engine to 70 mph while a computer runs 800 tests in two minutes. Each car goes through a virtual storm in the Water Test Booth (12 gallons of water per second).
Judy Tarrence, on the job 23 years, is the lucky employee who takes several randomly selected cars each day onto nearby highways for a road test, listening for rattles and squeaks and putting them through a more intense water test (eight minutes instead of two).
"It's fun," said Tarrence. "My favorite car is the Z06," a high-performance Corvette with a retractable hard top and a 505-hp engine that can go from zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds.