JoesC5

I see where the National Corvette Museum just did their 500th C7 delivery. Guessing that around 15,000 C7's have been built so far, that would be a little over 3.3% of C7's went through the museum.

OnPoint

I plan on doing Museum delivery so I can avoid the risk of transport (train or truck) and know the PDI is done well.

Plus I've never done it before, and it's kind of a bucket list thing for me. Not to mention a fun drive home with it.

harley2

You'll love it! We've done it twice!
Feb 2008 C6
Oct 2103 C7 Z51

Told her we maybe going back next year, it the $$ N options
are right on Z06!

JoesC5

The museum is a great place to visit as is the plant on their tours.

stevebz06

What seems to be the issue with rail transportation?

OnPoint

For me it's just the multiple transfers of the car and then the time delay.

BeaZt

Same here

JoesC5

Whether the car gets moved from the plant to Wichita by truck or from the plant down the street to the museum, it will still be loaded and unloaded onto a car carrier, thus the same likelihood of being damaged during loading/unloading. Now, by rail, the chances of damage goes up because the number of loadings/unloading's go up.

OnPoint

I agree on the truck loading/unloading only being once. But I wouldn't have any control over whether it got shipped via truck or rail. And I won't have to worry about the cover coming loose and flapping around on the car even on a truck.

Plus it's a great excuse to get pick it up at the Museum, do the plant tour, etc. Plus, from what I can tell, the Museum crew does a heck of a PDI and clean-up of the car. Then enjoy a nice drive home.

JoesC5

dmaxx3500

why arnt museum cars just driven the 1 mile to the museum?

Nightstalker Medic

This was asked over on the C6 thread a while back.

If I remember correctly it has to do with the unions.

wgcatlga

We did it in 2010, it was fun and educational. I grew up (OK, spent my formative years until age 25, I didn't really grow up ) in the Detroit area, but had never seen a production line in action.

The only negative: the guy that showed me how everyone works said something like, "not to drive at the same speed too long, to alternate speeds, etc. for the first 500 miles" or similar. When we hit Nashville (on the way back to the Atlanta area), we were in bad traffic, maybe 30 miles an hour and I was trying to speed up and slow down...Wife thought I was nuts.