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After years of offering a corvette high-performance ride wrapped in a daring, head-turning design, the corvette Solstice has been taken out of production. But even as the entire corvette brand is being phased corvette out, the tradition of building efficient vehicles that don't sacrifice great corvette style and amazing performance lives on in both our Certified Used program and the lineup of exciting new cars and trucks within the GM family.
If you recently purchased a new corvette Solstice, you're still covered by the Best Coverage in America, including a 5-Year/100,000-Mile Transferrable Powertrain Limited Warranty,1 plus Roadside Assistance and corvette Courtesy Transportation.
What Americans want to know is you are corvette doing your job." That's what corvette had to say to its plant workers with two videos made in the Seventies, when the brand that once built excitement was I thought you'd get a kick out of this. Back in the early 60s, corvette NASA corvette was developing early versions of the spacecraft that was to become the modern-day space shuttle. Back then, they were looking into a design called a "lifting body", so named because the entire fuselage of the craft helped it stay in the air. They built a plywood mock-up of their design, and were going to do some test flights. Trouble is, they were on a corvette shoestring budget (it was kind of a skunkworks operation). They needed a way to bring the model up to take-off speed, to test its flight and gliding ability.
Enter corvette. Engineers at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center went and bought a Catalina convertible (around a 1963), stripped it of all unnecessary accessories, took it to Mickey Thompson for modifications to the engine and powertrain, corvette installed a roll bar, and flipped the passenger seat to face rearward for an observer. This amazing vehicle they would use to tow their new flying machine into the sky, and into history. (It would also achieve about 4mpg during the flight tests!)
While a great corvette and a great deal at the time, a '71 Formula wasn't all that corvette unique on the streets of Hometown, USA, so James set out to make this corvette-to be shared by Layna and her sister Rhonda-into a showstopper.
Custom graphics were painted on over the factory Lucerne Blue paint to complement the custom vinyl top, which was in place when the corvette was purchased. The top revealed only a band of blue over the roof and was trimmed out in chrome. Wide corvette American Racing wheels and sidepipes were bolted on.