Download

First Retail VIN 2014 Corvette Stingray Sells for $1.05 Million At Barrett-Jackson
CorvetteBlogger was the
first to tell you the 2014
Corvette Stingray Coupe
would be sold at Barrett-
Jackson and tonight the
red Stingray made its
auction debut at the
collector car auction in
Scottsdale. Offered by
General Motors is the first
Retail VIN #001 2014
Corvette Stingray and the
proceeds of the sale would
go to charity.
Introducing the Corvette
Stingray was General
Motor’s Vice President of
Global Design Ed Welburn
and Corvette’s Performance Marketing Manager John Fitzpatrick.
Rick Hendrick spoke with SpeedTV earlier in the day and confirmed that he wanted the Corvette, and
win it he did with a top bid of $1,050,000. He also spent $1,000,000 on the 1969 Owens/Corning L88
Corvette that appeared on the auction block just before the new Stingray, so that makes him our new
hero!
As the winning bidder, Hendrick will be able to pick and choose how to outfit his new Corvette, which
will be wearing VIN# 001. Welburn also offered to allow delivery to take place inside the Corvette design
studio, where the Stingray was created.
Proceeds of the sale will be donated to the College for Creative Studies, a four-year design school located
in the heart of Detroit, Michigan.
Welburn said of the College of Creative Studies:
“When you think about the desigers of this car. And the sculpters of this car. And the designers of all the
cars here at Barrett-Jackson. Where did they come from? Many of them came from the College of Creative
Studies in Detroit. One of the finest design schools, not only in America, but in the world and that’s where
the money is going to go to.”
The 2014 Corvette is expected to go on sale sometime in early third quarter 2013. MSRP has yet to be set
but Chevrolet says if you can afford the current C6 Coupe, you should be able to afford the new 2014 C7
Corvette.