We just got word that the very first seventh-generation 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray garnered $1.1 million at the Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, with the winner being none other than NASCAR team owner and founder of the Hendrick Automotive Group and Hendrick Marrow Program — Rick Hendrick. Of course.
All proceeds will go to the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, while Mr. Hendrick will need to wait until the beginning of Corvette production in the third quarter of this year to get what is sure to become a historic, first-ever copy of the iconic American sports car.
The news comes on the heels of another Corvette — a 1958 belonging to GM CEO Dan Akerson — being sold at the auction Friday night for a plump $270,000.
Now, who wants to go halfsies on the #0001 C8?
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The person could of waited and bought the car for 60k then donated a million dollars to the school at any time…. But then again the person who bought this car HAS to be the First….That’s why he can spend a million dollars for a 60k car….must be nice..
1st! The “stingray Corvette” is a work of Art; past and upcoming 2014! (I’ve always owned GM Vehicles; As Now- 98 ponitiac fomula w/ only one servicing an alt. replaced now w/ 77,000 miles but even more so my 1988 R30 pickup goimg on 700,000 miles w/ the internal components never touched.) 2nd. Why do we all have to be negitve to discribe & define our opinions. 3rd. and for most! Helping one another empowers goodwill in the souls of all; in the giving & recieving of such generosity. When i was in a place to help, it always seemed that i got just as much happiness, if not more than the person being helped.
What I was saying is that
1 He could of waited and bought the car for retail. Just an observation.
2 He has the ability to donate a million dollars..So he could of done it at any time to any organization he wanted to..
3 His Personality type is that he has to be the first. That means he has succeeded in life and thus has the ability to spend a million dollars for a 60k car.
I meant that as a compliment…but came out rather cryptic and
4 it is a fact. It must be nice to have that ability…wouldn’t you all agree?
He is a rich man, and a charity is a rightoff for taxes ,if you made a lot of profit last year he could right it off and come out pretty good.
The buyer is to be admired, not criticized for being generous and giving over 1M to a worthy charity. There’s nothing wrong with being a nice guy.
The nice guy was rick hendrick, hendrick motorsports ( jeff gordon), and hendrick chevrolet, very nice guy with deep pockets, and well loved in the automotive sector. Good for him.
He also has a large chev collection and a dedicated chevrolet guy!
And people tell me that the arts aren’t worth funding. HA! Money well spent!
Money well spent indeed. And the C7 is a piece of art.
Art is life. Without it, we would driving 1974 Mustang IIs 😉
Exactly! People who think of art as unnessisary never think about what industrial design means in the auto industry. We’d have cars sculpted by engineers and accountants….Corollas.
I mean there music too, and that’s a hugechunk of art, but I doubt you’ll find a monster big enough to say music isn’t important.
No, I think this money would foster new industrial designers, new faces in the automotive studios playing with clay. It’s possible that the people responsible for the C7 got such a lucky break years ago, and it’s possible that students in that college might give us another beautiful Corvette in the future.
You said it best !!!
wow!!!!!!!!!!