The National Corvette Museum has announced it will be hosting an online-only car show to help keep Chevy fans entertained while they are stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Corvette owners will be able to enter their car in the show via the Museum’s website from April 6th through to April 12th for a small fee of $10, with the option to pay an additional $10 to enter judged categories and potentially receive an award. Owners can also enter more than one Corvette by using a separate, additional online entry form. Each household that enters will be sent a commemorative dash plaque as a keepsake from the online auto show.
All show entries will be posted on the National Corvette Museum’s website prior to judging, which will begin the week of April 12th. Once judging is complete, the museum will release a video announcing the winners on Thursday, April 23rd. Winners will be able to pick up their show awards at the upcoming Michelin NCM Bash, currently scheduled for May 28th to May 30th, or they can elect to have it mailed to them.
A total of 24 awards will be handed out as part of the show, the National Corvette Museum says, which will include individual awards for each Corvette generation, an award for the best Corvette race car and a Bowling Green Assembly Plant Manager’s award.
A star-studded cast of judges will also select the winners. The judging panel will include major names such as GM designers Peter Brock, Jerry Palmer and Tom Peters, racers John Heinricy, Andy Pilgrim and Johnny O’Connell and Corvette Racing Program Manager Doug Fehan.
“Being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation we started brainstorming ways to keep our audience engaged and the idea of an online car show emerged,” Dr. Sean Preston, President and CEO of the National Corvette Museum, said in a prepared statement. “We’ve created a number of categories that people can enter including the opportunity to share a little extra about their car – so rather than have judging like a typical car show, it’s fun, celebrity choice awards.”
To enter the National Corvette Museum’s online car show and view the various award categories, head on over to the event landing page at this link.
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The effort that the Museum is making is very much appreciated. This is exceptional. You have the gratitude of one aspiring C8 owner with only an 1100 status to show for my aspirations for an L3 or LT3. Please take care of yourselves, all the G.M. family. AF
You’ll get there one day Alex!
C8, C8: A Date With My Vette Will Have to Wait
If you want your C8 you’ll Just Have to wait,
All the magazines say that its really great,
You can build one on line, that’s for sure
But you’ll wait in line for what seems like years.
I want it; I want it; I want it
Do you want it? Do you want it; I thought I heard you say you want it!
My friends have Porsche and Lamborghini,
Guys I film have Ferrari & AMG,
But I don’t care ’cause I want a C8,
When I drive my tuner, seems I’m always late,
In 2020 BGAP closed its gate; seems a virus showed up like Watergate;
Now all I can do is drink some beers, there’s no stick shift but its got eight gears;
And now I’m lonely without the key, ’cause there’s no C8 comin’ to me.
Conti’s still dreamin’ ’cause he ain’t drivin’; Mikes got his but the lot’s out of C-7’s,
Bowling Green: Start again please; I want a C8, it’s my piece of Heaven.
The drive’s still in back, and now so’s the motor!
Gimme that Vette cause I ain’t no Floata,
My drivin’ shoes are on, but it’s just not great,
‘Cause to get my Vette, I’ll just have to wait.
‘Cause I’m ready for action and I’ll take your bet,
I don’t need no jewelry for me to have bling,
and the Mustang Cobra’s no longer the King.
Le me take my Ricarros, out o’ the booth,
For Zero to 60 will tell the truth
On a beautiful day I can run in the tens,
But it’s oh so sad, how this saga ends;
Here we are in social lock-DOWN,
I gotta have this car, I gotta have one,
With 8 DC speeds, she can really run.
6.2 liters and we’ll be havin’ fun.
The cash in my pocket’s burnin’ a hole,
And the PDR shows that I’ve struck gold;
Please, please God take the virus away
for comin’ soon, will be the day,
I’ll be on the track and racing for the cup,
And on the turns I’ll pass ’em cause my 8 hooks up.
Brink of speed shows me what it’s like,
And Speed Phenom drive, while I just hike.
T. J’s Mods are so very cool,
But when I get my stock 8, I’ll take ’em to school;
My drivin’ shoes are on but it’s just not great!
‘Cause to get my Vette, I’ll just have to wait.
(Optional: loud to fade: I’ll just have to wait; I’ll just have to wait; I’ll just have to wait.
by Alex Ford-May 12, 2020 – Copyright (May use as long as attribution is provided).