{"id":6114,"date":"2019-10-04T05:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2019-10-04T05:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:12:44","slug":"the-2020-corvette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/the-2020-corvette\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 Corvette"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6115\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6115 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2020.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2020-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2020 Corvette, as I configured it online. The pastel blue paint added big bucks. Hell, just painting the brake calipers red added $500. But it sure is pretty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I received an email last night from Chevy advising me I could configure my own new 2020 Corvette online with their website.\u00a0 Hmmmm, that sounded interesting. \u00a0 The new Corvettes are mid-engined, like a Ferrari and some of world&#8217;s other exotic sports cars.\u00a0 After doing as Chevy suggested, I&#8217;m mighty tempted.\u00a0 The new Corvette is stunning.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I first got the Corvette bug back in the early 1960s, watching a couple of TV shows.\u00a0 One was <em>Route 66<\/em>, a story about a young Marty Milner and George Maharis (Todd and Buzz) bopping around the US in a Corvette solving the world&#8217;s problems.\u00a0 The other was <em>Bonanza<\/em>, the great western sponsored by Chevy.\u00a0 We watched it as much for the Corvette ads as we did for the show.\u00a0 Ben, Hoss, Adam, and Little Joe.\u00a0 They&#8217;re all dead now, I think, but I remember them well, and Adam (Pernell Roberts) even appeared in one of the Corvette ads.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/leuhrfJ2LZ0\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"aligncenter\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><span class=\"mce_SELRES_start\" style=\"width: 0px; line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; display: inline-block;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tosCWTuITs\" width=\"651\" height=\"366\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d wanted a Corvette ever since I was a kid, and in 2004, as Chevy was transitioning from the C-whatever body style to the C+1 body style, they allowed the dealers to sell the &#8217;04 models to GM employees at the GM employee discount.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a long story how I qualified for it, but the bottom line is the discount exceeded $17K on a Z06 (a car most folks pay over MSRP for), and I was in.<\/p>\n<p>To make a long story a little less long, I kept the Z06 for 14 years, and when I sold it, the car had a whopping 40,000 miles on the clock.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about 2850 miles annually, and when you consider insurance and registration, that worked out to something slightly south of a dollar a mile just for insurance and registration. \u00a0 Throw in our California fuel costs (currently well over $4 a gallon), depreciation, and maintenance (surprisingly little on a car like the Z06), firing up that silver streak was expensive.\u00a0 I should have driven it more to get my money&#8217;s worth, but the Corvette was more of a toy for me than real transportation.\u00a0 I loved the thing, but it wasn&#8217;t a good daily driver.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t regret seeing the Corvette go, but every once in awhile I think about another one.\u00a0 Like when I received the email from Chevy last night that led to me playing around with their online configurator.\u00a0 That pastel blue one you see above sure grabbed my attention. There&#8217;s no denying it: The new Corvette is an incredibly-beautiful car. \u00a0 And I still qualify for the employee discount. But nah, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be pulling the trigger on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email last night from Chevy advising me I could configure my own new 2020 Corvette online with their website.\u00a0 Hmmmm, that sounded interesting. \u00a0 The new Corvettes are mid-engined, like a Ferrari and some of world&#8217;s other exotic sports cars.\u00a0 After doing as Chevy suggested, I&#8217;m mighty tempted.\u00a0 The new Corvette is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/the-2020-corvette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 2020 Corvette&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[891,207],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-corvette","tag-route-66"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}