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![[PICS] LPO Options Shipped to Dealers Ahead of First 2020 Corvette Deliveries](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020620_15-480x360.jpg)
Photo Credit: Matt Beaver / Whitmoyer Chevrolet
Our friend Matt Beaver of Whitmoyer Chevrolet shared some pics with us today as the LPO options for his first 2020 Corvette Stingray order were received at his dealership.
As you may know, GM offers two types of option codes for the Corvette.
![[STOLEN] Police Recover a Bright Yellow 1979 Corvette Eight Hours After It’s Reported Stolen](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020620_13-543x360.jpg)
File Photo Credit: CorvetteImages.com
If you were going to steal a Corvette, perhaps next time you might want to go for one a little less flashy than a Bright Yellow 1979 Corvette as this car thief in Kentucky found out the hard way.
Laurel County Sheriff’s Office received a report of the stolen 1979 Corvette valued at approximately $22,000 early on Wednesday morning.
![[VIDEO] Kai Spande Comments on the First 2020 Corvette Stingray Built](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020620_10-575x360.jpg)
On Monday, the first retail 2020 Corvette Stingray rolled off the assembly line in Bowling Green, KY. Predictably, there are a lot of happy “Corvette family members” crowing about the birth of the new Corvette, including Bowling Green Assembly Plant Manager Kai Spande, who along with Katie Ellison of the NCM appeared in this news package for wnky.com.
Photo Credits: CallawayCars.com
Director, James Cameron was living the high life in 1997. Professionally, his seventh movie, Titanic had just become the first film to ever bring in more than $1 billion at the box office and, in his personal life, he was about to wed Linda Hamilton, the star of his first cinematic success, 1984’s The Terminator.
![[VIDEO] Houston Corvette Service Gets First Look at Corvettes Damaged in Massive Explosion](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020620_1-585x328.jpg)
Eleven days after an explosion across the street flattened half of Houston Corvette Services, the owner finally got to go inside his two 3,000-square-foot buildings full of cars.
What Gordon Andrus found Tuesday underneath the sheets of metal were 17 classic cars, all damaged but every one still able to be repaired again, including a ’72 Corvette that “literally was finished, waiting for the customer to pick it up,” he told ABC 13 News.
![[VIDEO] C8 Corvette’s Nurburgring Lap Time Revealed in ‘Revolution’ Trailer](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020520_7-585x329.jpg)
With Monday’s official start of the C8’s production marked with an image of a black 2020 Corvette Stingray coming off the assembly line, Chevrolet also shared a video trailer for a forthcoming two-part documentary about the development of the mid-engine Corvette.
The documentary is called “Revolution” and it will be posted on the Chevrolet Corvette’s media page sometime later this year.
Magnussen, Rockenfeller to drive mid-engine Corvette at COTA, Sebring
DETROIT (February 5, 2020) – Corvette Racing is adding rounds in the FIA World Endurance Championship to its 2020 program. Races at Circuit of The Americas and Sebring International Raceway will allow Corvette Racing and Chevrolet additional opportunities to develop and test the new mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.
If you’re an enthusiast, you might think you could never have too many C1 Corvettes in your garage.
But that’s not always the case.
For example, the owner of this 1958 basement find is ready to part with his classic Corvette. When he bought the car, he was actually looking for a 1960 Corvette, like the one his father owned back in the day.
![[SPIED] Two C8 Corvette Z06 Prototypes Spotted on a Transporter in New Mexico](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020420_17-572x360.jpg)
A reader sent us this video taken last week that shows two C8 Corvette prototypes riding the back of a transporter under the cover of darkness in New Mexico.
Since the reveal of the 2020 Corvette Stingrays in July, we’ve seen two different sets of prototypes that are still wearing the pre-reveal camouflage.
![[ACCIDENT] C6 Corvette Driver Fails to Yield and Hits a Pickup Truck](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/uploads/2020/02/020420_16-585x329.jpg)
Photo Credit: Brayden Murdock, KNOP-TV
The driver of this Silver C6 Corvette went to the hospital following an accident with a pickup truck Monday morning in North Platte, Nebraska.
Police say the unidentified driver of the Corvette failed to yield at a stop sign at the intersection of Oak and Philip Street.