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As fanboys of any great car will tell you, at some point in your life you have make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of your favorite car. For Corvette fans, that means a trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky, current home of the Vette assembly plant, as well as the National Corvette Museum. One of the cool things about being in the vicinity of an assembly plant like Bowling Green is that you occasionally spot vehicles that aren't generally available yet. Such was the case for one lucky Vette-lover who goes by the handle Blade3562.
After emerging from the museum, Blade spotted a veritable fleet of fresh C6 Corvettes sitting in a Wendys parking lot across the street from the factory. Upon closer inspection, he realized they were all of the ZR1 variety with the drivers apparently fueling up inside in preparation for the journey north to Michigan. Of the eight cars, one was in the particular shade of blue seen in the initial batch of press shots while the rest were split between yellow and red models. We've already seen a number of yellow prototypes from back when this thing was still wearing camouflage, including one that made a brief appearance at last year's Laguna Seca ALMS weekend. The red ZR1s, however, are new to our eyes and the shade works well with the carbon fiber roof. While we sit here twiddling our thumbs, waiting for Chevrolet to call and invite us out for a drive, you can enjoy the video after the jump that Blade3562 assembled from his photos.
[Source: CorvetteBlogger]











Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Thetruck454 @ Mar 28th 2008 7:37PM
how did he get to sit in one!
Franz @ Mar 28th 2008 7:53PM
It looks best in red.
Alex Nunez @ Mar 28th 2008 8:20PM
Seconded. They should've unveiled it in that color.
wormyguy @ Mar 28th 2008 11:56PM
I'm waiting to see it in black before I decide which color it looks best in.
meshies @ Mar 29th 2008 12:48PM
I would have to say the best vette color is yellow.
HotRodzNKustoms @ Mar 28th 2008 7:53PM
For a Vette fan that is like a little slice of heaven.
tbirdman @ Mar 28th 2008 8:02PM
what no burn out or just light reving of the motor, awesome car but i want my 6 min back.
Johnny @ Mar 28th 2008 8:06PM
Eat that Porsche!
AC @ Mar 28th 2008 8:12PM
I'm not much of a vette fan but it does look pretty awesome in that blue... the red and yellow make it look a bit dated though.
Yaroukh @ Mar 28th 2008 8:25PM
And as usually - we don't hear the engine sound because of music.
When will these ppl learn that simple fact that the best music is the one coming from engine?
almost Dr. G.. @ Mar 28th 2008 8:33PM
i agree my friend. just wait until electric cars flood the market and the you have to put audio speakers (a-la fisker) to have the engine noise. we are going to miss the rumblings of engines. nothing like the rumble of burning dinosaurs (but i wont take credit for that someone else said it first).
Mike @ Mar 29th 2008 10:19AM
This isn't a video, it's a montage of pictures.
If it was a video, I'd agree with you.
Yaroukh @ Mar 29th 2008 10:25AM
2 Mike:
> This isn't a video, it's a montage of pictures.
Wrong. The video starts at [05:05].
Mike @ Mar 29th 2008 10:50AM
You're right,
I watched a bunch of it and got bored too.
My bad
Benfolio @ Mar 29th 2008 6:54PM
Yeah, what a piss-poor video/montage.
Crappy old overdone music that EVERYONE uses, poor pics (can't rotate? PFFT!), worthless video clip (where's the engine SOUND!??!?!), I could go on.
Did anyone else count 8 ZR1's? And who told this guy they were the first ones off the line?
How come only retards get to get scoops like this, why couldn't a professional car nut with a proper understanding of how to make a quality video/montage have been there??? WE EAT AT WENDYS TOO!!
Frosty FTW.
Mike @ Mar 28th 2008 9:13PM
There are only 3 things that are good at wendys:
Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger
Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Frosty
If they got anything other than that, I'm not buying a corvette.
John R @ Mar 28th 2008 10:54PM
Second on the spicy chicken. Everything else is bleh.
Miguel @ Mar 29th 2008 3:19AM
Only if the Frosty is the malt chocolate. Those vanilla things are abominations! Not a Frosty I say!
Pokey @ Mar 28th 2008 10:01PM
I don't normally like blue cars, but this baby wears that color very well!
BlackZr1 @ Mar 28th 2008 10:29PM
Up till now the Zr1 has been kinda unreal!