My gt1 is due to be "at trim" on Thursday of this week with a scheduled completion week of 6/18. My order number is njdv0t. I think my post got lost in the "track my build" thread a few weeks ago. Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Thanks in advance Ken!
We sold VIN 00004 to a customer in NY. He has yet to receive his car though I was invoiced for it and told that it was completed and shipped in April!
Apparently the stripes and maybe other components are installed after the car has been completed in the Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant. The car once built is loaded onto an Allied truck and shipped off site. Once the "trim" is completed off site the car is again loaded on an Allied truck and returned to the plant shipping yard. Then Allied builds a load and ships the car to the delivering dealer.
Your order number has reached an event code of 3400 and the system indicates a tpw of 6/15/09.
My gt1 is due to be "at trim" on Thursday of this week with a scheduled completion week of 6/18. My order number is njdv0t. I think my post got lost in the "track my build" thread a few weeks ago. Sorry if this is in the wrong place. Thanks in advance Ken!
Don't mean to butt in, but I can sort of answer this since we just finished the buyers tour today (5/26). When we saw our car in "trim" on 5/20, some of the the body panels were installed. No doors, no fenders, no radio, etc. Of course, it has not been married to the engine and drive train. Sort of a "shell" of a car. Dash is in, carpet is in... From this point it will take about 2 full days to complete the car. Run rate is about 88 a day. Hope this helps! I think you are going to be in limbo during the 2 week shutdown. I probably saw your car!!
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Sounds like you get "Oklahoma" storms where you are too!
We get some horrendous weather this time of year. We've had two tornadoes in our immediate area in the last month...no big hail this year (so far) but we sure get it and the rain too.
Last November of all months we had $40,000 of damage to our home due to baseball size hail coming in horizontal at 60+mph!
Sorry to hear about your old car getting totaled...but congrats on the new one! Enjoy!!!
Ours took 13 days to show up once it went out the GM Assembly Plant door. The 2008 was the same number of days. Not sure how the GT1 is handled. Ken mentioned some other place installs the decals. Does the car return to BG for shipment after the decal install? Our C6 vert actually showed up in an enclosed ZR1 trailer.
RRankins' car went back to Bowling Green to be shipped. That's what is so much "fun" is that our car is running all over and we aren't in it! I'm hoping the outsource shop is quick in getting the stripes on and back to BG before the last of the '09s leave the plant. GM doesn't tend to send out partial trucks from the plant.
"At trim" in plant terminology is when the car comes down the ramp from paint and makes the left turn to where they start putting everything on the car. Been there many times to watch mine get built and that is always what I am told.
BTW, used to live in Enid while at Vance AFB for pilot training, many, many years ago.
Thanks for confirming the info. I'm just in waiting mode as everyone but my wife and I seems to have seen our car at the dealership. Tuesday can't get here soon enough...I'll post some coming home pics when we pick it up!
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