The COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench in just about everybody’s 2020 plans – including C8 Corvette customers. Many buyers of the 2020 model-year Corvette were expecting to receive their cars in early spring, which would have given them the entire summer to enjoy their new mid-engine sports car. Fate had other plans, though, and most customers had to wait until the fall or the winter to receive their vehicles.
Chevy enthusiast Michael DiGiorgio was among those C8 Corvette buyers that had their delivery pushed back due to COVID-19-related delays. To make up for the time he lost with his 6.2L LT2 V8-powered sports car, he set out on a 9,000-mile road trip across the United States last fall, taking in the beauty of the country and enjoying his car on some of the best driving roads it has to offer.
“In October, I took my (then) brand-new Corvette C8 on a 9000-mile road trip around America, with the goal of experiencing as many of our country’s best scenic routes, iconic driving roads, and National Parks as possible in only 19 days,” DiGiorgio told us. “The car saw just about everything you can imagine, from dirt roads at the Grand Tetons, to the extreme heat of Death Valley, to the snow-covered mountains of the Cascade Range, to the idyllic driving roads like Tail of the Dragon. It cruised Route 66, chased a Porsche on Highway 1, took a ferry in the Salish Sea, and had bison come up within arm’s reach at Yellowstone.”
Sports cars like the C8 Corvette were made for road trips like this. Most car enthusiasts know the freeing and stress-relieving feeling that taking a long road trip can have, and we imagine this feeling is amplified when you’re behind the wheel of an impressive sports car like the C8 Corvette. We’re sure the looks from passersby that hadn’t yet seen a C8 Corvette in person also added to the fun a bit.
Check out the video embedded below to re-live DiGiorgio’s idyllic road trip through the lens of his camera, and if you want to keep up with his Corvette-related content, consider dropping him a follow on Instagram. Here’s to many more safe, happy miles behind the wheel of your Corvette, Michael!
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So old man travels the nation, he would been better in the usual RV 🙃🙂🙃…..
Good for him. I have done a trip from Toronto too LA. With a new Colorado in 2015. Than in 2016 a new Ford went from Toronto too Vancouver great way too break in a new motor. Each trip was around 6-7 thousand miles. Got a new 2019 sitting in the barn waiting for spring and hoping COVID will be over. Think Las Vegas will be a good road trip.
Good for him. That’s what I’m getting mine for is to drive.
I think it’s a fantastic video. I have wanted to do this ever since my grandparents bought a brand new car then took off on a cross country tour. This was January 1985.
A few years ago I made a similar trip in a convertible C5. Best enjoyable trip of my life. The Corvette drove flawlessly, with excellent fuel mileage. Currently own a 1966. I would be willing to do it again in this vehicle, however the wife objects missing the creature comforts. May hopefully purchase another late model Corvette for another long trip. Highly suggest it as the way to view our beautiful country. Hopefully without masks.
Yes, America all the way!
Beautiful car beautiful country
CORVETTES….THEEEE only way to see the US of A !!! I own a 62 for some 43 years and until COVID did on average 25 Car Shows a year…..LOVE IT ! I also bought a C-6 new Atomic Orange and we did San Diego where we live to B Green in a Caravan 2014, drove like 3 weeks seeing the sights and a total of 6,000 miles. 2019 4,000 miles and 5 states, nothing comes close to a Vette for traveling.
I should take delivery of my C-8 in May and off we go again, maybe just the coast of California this year due to Covid, next year many miles heading back east.
Love the post and the info.
Thanks
JD in Carlsbad, Ca
Reminds me of when Brock Yates and Jim Williams drove the “Yukon Corvette” over 4000 miles to Alaska in 1976, and Yates wrote a stellar article about it in Car & Driver magazine. Legendary travels in a Corvette – life just doesn’t get any better!!!
Sounds like a fun, but don’t know if I could go that long in a two seater. I know what I am talking about I have had 4 Gen5-6 Camaro’s. What he did not mention is, after the trip he will be seeing a chiropractor to be able to stand straight again! 😉
I have an 11 C6 GS with 120,000 miles on the clock, my wife drives a Tahoe. We have traveled in both on 10 and 12 hours a day trips. The vette has been from middle TN to middle and Southern Florida, many times as well as the East Coast and Chicago. When I arrive after driving the vette all day with only stops for gas food and restroom, I am rested and ready to go do something. If we take the Tahoe not so much. My wife says the C6 fits me perfect. In the Tahoe I seem to need to change positions a lot to stay comfy. I’d rather drive the Vette, 2021 C8 is ordered, I hope it fits as good when I strap it on!
9000 miles in vette…? Ya right
I made my trip cross country from Delaware to California and back. That was in a red 2003 convertible. Don’t compare a Camaro to a Corvette. It was nothing to drive for 8 hours if desired and arrive comfortable. Believe me it was an excellent ride. I later purchased a 2007 Corvette and the interior is very similar in size and comfort. That being said the interior is more cramped in the C7 generation. That is according to several members of my Corvette Club. I was also about 65 when I made the trip.
So worth it! Drove 6000 miles all over the west a couple of years ago in my C7 with a few other Corvettes. So much worth it. A highlight of my life! I drive mine! Now with the C8, ready to roam.
After all those miles and hours in the C8, was there anything he loved and what if anything did he hate?