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Our aboriginal analysis of the 2014 Corvette Stingray is live, and to bless we’ve aggregate a account highlighting special-edition Vettes, starting with the 1978 Argent Ceremony acrylic option. Which one would you like to esplanade in your collection?
1978 Argent Ceremony Edition
This year apparent the Vette’s 25th birthday, and Chevrolet apparent the break with 15,000 or so Argent Ceremony editions. The almsman of the aboriginal two-tone acrylic arrangement offered in added than 15 years, the car additionally got aluminum auto and ‘sport’ exoteric mirrors. The amalgamation amount aloof beneath $800.
1978 Indy 500 Clip Car Replica
The Corvette paced the Indy 500 for the aboriginal time this year, and Chevy apparent the break with a limited-edition Clip Car Replica model. It included a two-tone acrylic arrangement with red detail striping, mirror-tinted T-tops, and appropriate VIN numbers. Chevy had initially planned to aftermath 300 as a nod to the assembly run of the aboriginal ’53 model, but the automaker gave way to appeal and some 6500 were produced.
1982 Collector’s Edition
The ’82 Collector’s Copy was the aboriginal Corvette to acme $20,000. For that money, buyers got a argent and biscuit acrylic arrangement and autogenous treatment, decals central and out, disposable bottle roof panels, and commemorative aluminum wheels.
1993 40th Ceremony Edition
Chevrolet acclaimed the Corvette’s 40th altogether with an actualization amalgamation for both coupes and convertibles. Ruby Red was activated to both autogenous and exterior, 40th Ceremony emblems replaced the Vette’s accepted fare, and bespoke centermost caps were added as well.
1995 Indy 500 Clip Car Replica
Five-hundred and twenty-seven Corvette Indy 500 Clip Car Replicas were built, all convertibles, although none featured the Speedway-mandated cycle bar and allowance apparent on the real-deal clip car above. All came in Dark Amethyst Metallic with Arctic White trim, and featured a white covering interior, a white softtop, and appropriate Indy 500 graphics.
1996 Collector’s Edition
A Sebring Argent acrylic arrangement with Collector’s Copy decals, silver-painted 17-inch aluminum wheels, forth with “Collector’s Edition” adornment were all that set this limited-run Corvette apart.
1996 Grand Sport
The additional accumulation of Grand Sports was 200 times beyond than the first—1000 if you’re befitting account at home. Powered by the stronger, 330-hp LT4 V-8, the ’96 Grand Sport was accomplished in Admiral Dejected with a white band active bottomward the centermost of the car and red assortment marks on the driver’s ancillary advanced fender. Black-painted 17-inch aluminum auto sat in advanced of black-painted anchor calipers; flared fenders provided apartment for the rolling banal on coupes, although convertibles did after the anatomy mods. Autogenous blush choices were bound to atramentous or atramentous with red details, but all featured “Grand Sport” adornment on their perforated covering seats.
1998 Indy 500 Clip Car Replica
By 1998, the signature amethyst hue had a name: Clip Car Purple. It was slathered on this special-edition convertible, which came with a covering autogenous akin in atramentous and chicken and formed on yellow-painted wheels. The requisite Indy 500 cartoon were applied, too. We acclaim not staring at this angel for too connected lest you bake out your eyes—it’s like some array of abundantly anachronous sun.
2003 50th Ceremony Package
For the Corvette’s 50th birthday, Chevy corrective a accumulation of coupes and convertibles in Xirallic Crystal—that’s bittersweet if you don’t allege GM’s blush palette—and adapted them with champagne-painted aluminum auto and a biscuit autogenous treatment. The 50th Ceremony Corvettes additionally came accepted with Magnetic Ride Control.
2004 Commemorative Edition
Created to accelerate off the C5, the Commemorative copy nods to the C5-R’s success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The exoteric was corrective Le Mans Blue, and Z06 verisons featured argent and red emphasis detailing, a carbon-fiber hood, and baby book aural the archetypal Vette emblems that read, “Commemorative 24:00 Heures Du Mans 2 GTS Wins.” Non-Z06 Commemoratives got the Le Mans Dejected accomplishment and “Commemorative” adornment in headrests, but no absolute Le Mans shout-outs.
2007 Z06 Ron Fellows Championship Edition
To admire Ron Fellows’s ALMS GT1 championship, Chevrolet produced an Arctic White Z06 featuring red and argent emphasis pieces. This scheme, as able-bodied as the maple blade congenital in the car’s graphics, is a nod to Fellows’s Canadian heritage. The Fellows Championship Copy Vette additionally featured 20-inch chrome wheels, a lip spoiler, a “Corvette” windshield banner, a red autogenous treatment, and Fellows’s signature on the armrest.
2007 Indy 500 Clip Car Replica
For the car’s ninth Indy 500 pace-car appearance, Chevrolet offered addition Clip Car Replica, which was accessible alone with a atramentous ragtop and Atomic Orange paint. Orange additionally akin the agent awning and the interior. Indy 500 logos were activated to the doors and abstract on the headrests, natch.
2008 Victory Edition
The Corvette’s antagonism ancestry isn’t absent on Chevrolet’s European arm, and this Victory Copy Corvette was fabricated accessible on the Continent for the 2008 archetypal year. Accessible in atramentous or Velocity Chicken Tintcoat, the car additionally wore five-spoke aluminum auto accomplished in Competition Gray (18 inches up front, 19 out back) and a body-colored lip spoiler. The autogenous was accomplished in atramentous and yellow, with chicken adverse stitching, carbon-look trim accents, and a numbered Victory Copy badge.
2008 427 Bound Copy Z06
To pay admiration to a allegorical engine, this appropriate edition—powered by the 7.0-liter LS7, which technically displaces 428 cubic inches, but we digress—featured “427” badging on the awning and adornment on the attic mats. The blow of what separates the 427 Bound Copy from approved Z06s included Crystal Red Tintcoat paint, a atramentous awning stripe, different wheels, and a body-colored spoiler. Aloof 427 were fabricated accessible to North American customers, but a added 78 were produced for all-around consumption.
2009 GT1 Championship Edition
Because absolution a appropriate copy called for the disciplinarian who won you an ALMS GT1 championship two years ago isn’t enough, it was absitively that there would be a GT1 Championship Copy Corvette. This would bless the Corvette’s 70 victories and eight chic championships. This amalgamation was accessible on approved and Z06-spec Corvettes, although it provided no achievement upgrades. The C6.R chase car’s instantly apparent Velocity Chicken was one accessible finish, with a atramentous exoteric additionally on offer. “GT1” emblems could be begin on the black-and-yellow seats, the apparatus panel, and the armrest. A different VIN arrangement and a carbon-and-black agent awning accomplished the package.
2009 Competition Edition
European markets accustomed the Competition Copy Corvette to bless yet addition division of Corvette captivation in motorsports. To that end, Chevrolet claimed that the Competition Corvette bore attenuate affinity to the C6.R and afar abounding options in the name of weight savings. The Competition was set afar from banal Continental Corvettes by the Z06’s lip spoiler, Competition Gray five-spoke aluminum wheels, and a specific atramentous exoteric finish.
2011 Z06 Carbon Bound Edition
One of the absolutely appropriate editions in Corvette-dom, Chevrolet offered to Z06 Carbon for two reasons: One, to accommodated appeal for a average arena amid the Z06 and the ZR1. And two, to bless 50 years aback the brand’s aboriginal captivation in Le Mans. This Z06 fabricated use of the ZR1’s 15-inch carbon-ceramic brakes, adjustable magnetorheological shocks, and 19-inch auto up advanced and 20-inchers out back. The “Carbon” allocation of the name is no gimmick, either, as the ZR1-inspired hood, rocker extensions, advanced splitter, and roof console all are rendered in the failing weave. To accumulate this car special—Chevrolet offered the all-inclusive majority of these achievement aliment in two advantage packages—it accustomed a Z06 Carbon adumbration on the council wheel, doorsills, and headrests; and was accessible in alone Inferno Orange and Supersonic Blue. The assembly run was capped at 500 units.
2012 Centennial Edition
A hundred years of Chevrolet yielded the Centennial edition, which angry out to be not abundant added than an actualization package. Accessible alone in Carbon Flash Metallic, this special-edition Vette featured matte-black decals and red trim activated to the 19- and 20-inch atramentous wheels, anchor calipers, and autogenous stitching. It did add magnetorheological shocks to those Vettes that weren’t so equipped, as able-bodied as the achievement mods able to the antecedent year’s Z06 Carbon Edition.
2013 60th Ceremony Package
Launched at the aforementioned time as the 427 convertible—which was basically a Z06 after a roof—this was a special-order backpack accessible for all 2013 Vettes. Aliment included white acrylic and a dejected interior, alternative dejected striping (that connected in bolt on the roofs of convertible models!), and a deluge of ceremony logos. Both this amalgamation and the 427 accustomed the end of the C6 generation.
2014 C7 Stingray Premiere Edition
The aboriginal special-edition C7, the Premiere Copy will be bound to a assembly run of 500 units. Those will be identifiable by the Laguna Dejected exoteric analysis and the amber faux suede interior, as able-bodied as the Stingray emblems activated to the centermost caps and doorsills. The car additionally makes use of an apparent carbon-fiber roof, and comes complete with appropriate Premiere Copy baggage by Thule.
