General Motors has delivered less than 2,700 examples of the 2020 Corvette C8 so far. The UAW strike forced the automaker to delay the start of production by nearly three months and shortly after the sports car began to roll off the assembly line, GM closed its plants due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This has delayed the delivery of many customers’ new Corvettes, including one who recently passed away from COVID-19. As YouTuber and Chevrolet salesman Rick Conti announced in a recent video, a customer of his named Greg had a Torch Red Corvette Convertible on order with the 2LT trim, Z51 performance package and red brake calipers. His order was set to be fulfilled in the second allocation cycle for the Corvette C8, but unfortunately, he passed away due to complications from COVID-19 and never received his car.
Rick Conti received an email from the buyer’s wife notifying him of his death and telling him to cancel the order of the Corvette C8.
“Rick this is Doris, Greg’s wife. Need to let you know that Greg passed away on Wednesday from the coronavirus. He was so looking forward to this mid-engine Corvette. I guess it’s not meant to be. Please cancel his order. Thank you, Doris,” the email said.
In the video description, Rick Conti indicates Greg went to the hospital on March 23rd and was eventually put on a ventilator to aid his breathing. He passed away on April 8th following a brief battle with the virus. Greg loved talking Corvettes with Rick Conti and enjoyed watching his YouTube channel, his wife also said.
The photos in this article show what Greg’s 2020 Corvette Convertible would have looked like were it delivered.
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This is just totally sad . I hope GM just gives it to a close family member , or charity to sell and give the money to a food bank . Damn China Virus ……………………. or that’s not PC ………………. JMO ……………………
Agree, Chevy should auction it off and 100% of the proceeds go to buying PPE for hospital workers in the honor of the deceased name. Will be a great public campaign.
Almost all of this could have been prevented if the US government had acted with urgency. So sad.
Garbage comment… Watch fox once in a while for a balanced viewpoint. You will see the truth more clearly. I watch CNN and FOX. You will see fauci late Jan saying no problem here in USA, you will see pelosi saying enjoy Chinatown mid feb while it’s brewing, you will see the media laughing at trump stopping flights. And you will see that maybe none realized that stopping the flights was not good enough. Where the Blame for the governors? They are responsible too.
Re the guy who passed away, my heart and prayers are with him and his family. That poor man did not get a chance to enjoy his car and it’s truly sad.
The only garbage here is between your two shoulders.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUiG-9KWkAM7GdB?format=jpg&name=small
If you want to educate yourself. ( but I doubt it)
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/mar/20/how-donald-trump-responded-coronavirus-pandemic/
thank god trump put the china travel ban on before more china virus hit our chores , imagine how much faster the china virus would have spread with nasty hillary
So sad to hear of this Rick. I affects us all. Sounds like this would have been his last Corvette.
Unless the dealer cancels the factory order, it’s likely that the car will end up as just one more unit in the dealer’s stock, and will likely sell very quickly, as it is red, red brake calipers, Z51 and LT2 trim.
This article about Greg, man on the waiting list for the revolutionary C8 brings this Covid-19 Virus a little closer to home for all of us. The documentary which shows documents and a complete tracing of the origin of the virus including cloning and engineering by the female Chinese scientist (with the help of French, British and U. S. doctors and scientists), makes this more of an intentional or irresponsible attack by the Chinese upon the world. No one at Bowling Green has caught the virus. Meantime, with orders not put through, GM made enough C8’s to send out to certain Chevy dealers and those cars finally arrived from shipment within the past seven days. Quite a number of C8’s were sold within three days of internet posting even with15-30 K markups by certain dealers. Some dealers were up front on the net and some were not. Certainly oddly optioned models seem to remain on the market, virus or not. The government has its hand in how or if those C8’s are being sold. Lastly, it is very easy to cast aspersions at people all around with so many lives being lost in this “war against a pandemic.” And make no mistake. It is a war. AF
Where in the world(s) do you live in that the government has a hand on how the C8 are to be sold of those that have died? I rarely criticize on anyone’s comments, but this is off the charts.
I live in Southern California, if you really must know. The government has its hands in everything of late; or haven’t you noticed. I live in the USA where i was born, raised and educated. For you not to have noticed that the government (Obama) had a hand in bailing out GM out would be an example I have just brought to your attention. Businesses were shut down in many cases by the government in response to Covid-19. When you phrase my words, “…live in that the government has a hand on how the C8 are to be sold of those who have died,” You mixed two statement of mine together as if they were part of the same thing. The part about the government having a hand in how or if those C8’s are being sold, refers to the potential for the government to make rulings about whether a business is allowed to start up again, based upon the government’s prerogative to institute the laws regarding health and safety of a country under unusual circumstance, for example, the Covid-19 virus. With regard to those who died already and some who may suffer the same fate in the future, the government of China was implicated in the documentary which is on youTube in which the Chinese government female scientist/chemist/biologist was documented as working with original viruses that would not infect a human directly. She developed a virus capable of going from an animal such as a bat, for example, that could directly infect a human being. She then actually used cloning, according to the documentary, to develop quite a lot of the virus. They don’t know for sure if the virus was released intentionally, or got out of the laboratory in some sort of error or accident. I didn’t make this information up. Just in the last couple of days, the regular news agencies have been reporting the Chinese development of this virus. The documentary mentioned professionals in this country and Britain who sent biological material to China upon its request for it some period of time ago. Some of that material wound up being found in the samples taken from sick people which were then studied to determine their origin. AF
Amazing blog! Do you have any hints for aspiring writers?
I’m hoping to start my own blog soon but I’m
a little lost on everything. Would you suggest starting with a free platform like WordPress or go for a paid option? There
are so many options out there that I’m completely
overwhelmed .. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!
To roblox.hack.get robux -You have paid me the highest complement that anyone can pay someone else. You asked me if I have any hints for aspiring writers. I’ve seen that question a few times only over the last six decades and usually a well-accepted writer or author will say, “Write!” I actually have a mild form of dyslexia, that complicates things a little because I make typing errors but don’t notice them. I often get an idea and then just write about my observations, attempting to put some ideas together that make good sense. I try to respect others, even if on the surface, they don’t respect me, in blogs. One argument that cannot be won is a blog or even a vlog contest. There’s just no winner. I would add that one should not just write, but write about what you like a lot. Write about what you love. Now and then, write about who you hate.
Sometimes, I attempt to get to the bottom of my ideas and feelings both before, during and after I write. I don’t proof read enough. If I did, I would see where I left out connections and transitions. I would also see where I did not express myself adequately enough.
In grammar school, I was a poor writer and my handwriting was poor. I wasn’t much better in middle school. High School was where I began to write a bit better as I finally completed a Senior Class History term paper properly, as least as far as starting it well ahead and putting it together over time.
The came Jr. or Community College. I didn’t take any writing classes and the most writing I did was in tests or something. I didn’t understand a lot of the concepts of writing. I think that I still don’t. I often have an idea and then write stream of consciousness. I just write what I’m thinking. Sometimes there are outlines of idea. Mostly I don’t jot down an outline but attempt to keep it or a point or two in my head and then just write about it.
I got a job with a small throw away paper in my little city of Chula Vista, Ca. one summer and did some writing and that helped a little bit.
Next I went to a University where there was some more writing over the next three years. And lastly, I got a job working for the Los Angeles County Probation Department where I was trained as an investigator. That involved factual writing for courts who were making decisions about the lives of people convicted or charged with crimes. I did a lot of writing on a regular basis and a lot of note taking.
I began to read books, but was never a prolific reader, although I went through a period where I’d read three books a week. I didn’t do more because i’m a slow reader.
From time to time, I wrote into magazines expressing my opinion on motorcycles, cars and things like that and was surprised that occasionally something I wrote would get into the editorial page.
also, since 1996, I studied the life of my grandfather because I was named after him and because i grew up in a family where so little was said, that I knew very little about the background of my parents and their parents and little or nothing about the ones that came before them. I started studying them, at first just discussing things with my folks who told me a little more after I turned about age 49. I have continued building family trees on line in places like myheritage.com and this involves writing and researching. I’ve purchased blank journals a few times and have written things down that are interesting to me that I encounter. My wife always asks me, “When will you be taking the test?” I can’t even explain it, but I write down things I may never read again, or I write things down that I might come back to several times.
In researching my family background, I discovered that not only did both my mother and father have a talent for writing, but so did my father’s father as did different relatives of his, which of course would be my distant relatives. Apparently their is some sort of gene in my blood that makes me either good at writing, or just makes me want to write. My old best pal from high school thinks that I’m a good writer. My relatives on my mothers side, have never complimented my writing.
In the last year or two, I’ve expanded into writing responses to other people’s writing, and while doing so, sometimes do a bit of quick research, to see if I can’t say something that will help other people get and develop their own ideas. I’m a bit suggestible at times and will stop what I’m doing and write about something I just saw, interrupting what I intended to do. That was the case when I reviewed my e-mail and saw your comment.
Lastly, I’m writing a book, one on my father’s life, a biography, and one on his father’s life, my grandfather. I’ve been working on it off and on for a couple of decades.
I don’t know if it relates or not. I’m not a prolific photographer, but I like photography weather it is taking picctures of old pictures that I inherited of my grandfather, or just shooting pictures occasionally where ever I am. Mostly I just get shap shots. I guess none of my pictures are art. However, I have shot a variety of images that I like, and some of them are when i drove to a certain spot to walk around and shoot pictures. Or when I travel. I just have some that I like. And now and then, I will write a story about pictures I shot.
Thank you for spurring me to write back to you. I hope there is something in here that might help. If you are interested in it, write about it. Just whatever it is. The rest of it. There are a lot of directions. I’ve never been paid to write anything except in that sports page job I had as a teen and that was only a temp. summer gig. AF