Category: Corvette News

An Unmatched Tradition of Automotive Excellence Purchase Your Tickets to the 72nd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance August 20, 2023 at The Lodge at Pebble Beach in California GENERAL ADMISSION Make a memory at the Concours. Stroll through the show field, shop at RetroAuto, visit manufacturer displays, bring or purchase a tasty meal and enjoy an al fresco lunch at our Café Seating & Picnic Area. PURCHASE TICKETS CLUB d’ELEGANCE Attend the Concours and enjoy respite at the Club d’Elegance, located in an elegant tent at Parc du Concours, a short…

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Photo Credit: McFarlane Promotions This Sunday April 23rd, 20239AM-4PM – Ellen Browning Scripps Park This year we highlight the C1 and C2 Corvettes. C1 refers to 1953 thru 1962.C2 refers 1963 to 1967.If you have a show worthy stock example you need to compete in this years event, Click Here to register. Returning to the shores of La Jolla, CA, the La Jolla Concours d’Elegance, presented by LPL Financial celebrates its 17th year of automotive excellence Friday April 21st – Sunday April 23rd, 2023. Earning a reputation as one of the finest…

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the La Jolla Concours d’EleganceSunday April 23, 2023 Photo Credit: McFarlane Promotions Sunday April 23rd, 20239AM-4PM – Ellen Browning Scripps Park This year we highlight the C1 and C2 Corvettes. C1 refers to 1953 thru 1962.C2 refers 1963 to 1967.If you have a show worthy stock example you need to compete in this years event, Click Here to register. Returning to the shores of La Jolla, CA, the La Jolla Concours d’Elegance, presented by LPL Financial celebrates its 17th year of automotive excellence Friday April 21st – Sunday April 23rd, 2023. Earning…

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Picture Credit:: HotCars The Corvette SUV is rumored to hit the streets as early as 2025, and it might look like this. The Crossover and SUV craze is still going strong and much like other companies, American car manufacturers are forced to make tough choices to ensure their survival in the coming era. Electric vehicles are also doing great despite many carmakers working on synthetic fuels and alternative means of propulsion. Combining an SUV/crossover body style with an electric powertrain seems to be the best bet for a car company…

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The new E-Ray is still not available to order, but reviewers are getting review cars to “test out”. Using Jason Cammisa’s signature time-freeze video technique to show the outcome of a ¼ mile race, and explain how it happened, by walking back through slow-mo time at the finish line, is exactly what GM was hoping reviewers would show, the $104,295 (starting price coupe) E-Ray versus other high-performance sports cars. In this case, the E-Ray is pitted against a Ferrari F8 ($283,950 starting price) and Lamborghini Huracan Evo RWD ($248,295 starting…

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70 Years of Defining the Future For 70 years and eight generations, Chevrolet Corvette has defined what’s possible for carenthusiasts around the world and helped mainstream many new automotive technologies we takefor granted today. But perhaps its biggest contribution has been to our collective psyches. Because when it comes toultimate freedom, it’s difficult to surpass the exhilaration of a Corvette, racing along the dottedwhite lines toward whatever’s on the other side of the horizon. It all adds up to Corvette being the longest continuously produced passenger car nameplate inworld history.…

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The last V8 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is an important car. Not just for Dodge and muscle car enthusiasts, but also for Corvette owners.  As the Challenger SRT Demon and the Corvette are both American icons with a rich history of performance and speed. They are two of the most well-known and beloved sports cars in the world.  And they have been in competition with each other for decades. But now Dodge is saying goodbye to the V8-powered cars for good and going with turbocharged V6’s for their gas…

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 Photo Credits: Charlotte Today The 1960s were a time of great change in the world, and the Chevrolet Corvette was no exception. The 1963 Corvette received the long-awaited major update. The new design, known as the “Sting Ray”, was even more aggressive than the previous model, with an optional split rear window coupe body style; the first hardtop coupe Corvette. The car also featured a new independent rear suspension system, which improved handling and stability. Over the next few years, the Corvette continued to evolve. For 1965, the Corvette received…

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  Photo Credits: Steve Garrett / Corvette Today Podcast For the first time since the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans, the three Briggs Cunningham Corvette racecars that competed in that race were reunited at the 2023 Amelia Concours d’Elegance on Amelia Island. The backstory on the three Le Mans racers has been told many times, and we highly recommend watching “The Quest” documentary by Michael Brown which focused on the No.3 Corvette which won the class and finished 8th overall, if you can find a copy. The short story…

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The year was 1957 The year was 1957. Some of us were still a glimmer in our parent’s eye and the others of us weren’t old enough to drive yet, but we couldn’t wait to get behind the wheel of our own car. In any case, it was the beginning of the greatest period in US automotive history; a time when the debut of new cars in the showrooms was one of the biggest events of the year. Life was good and America was prosperous. World War II was twelve…

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