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    Quote Originally Posted by Magna_Cum_Laude View Post
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    Hellcat is a serious machine. No insurance issues w/something that raw and powerful?

    Hard to tell when the premium price for C8s will abate. When I picked up my C7 a few weeks ago, the buyer of a new red C8 climbed into it with an obvious look of satisfaction. My guy told me it was ordered 14 months ago. I know the 6-week shutdown at the Bowling Green plant really set production behind, but 14 months would seem like an eternity.

    Some of the color schemes for the C8s are interesting. I usually cannot stand yellow, but with the C8, it's a beaute. Sebring orange is incredible. Zeus bronze is the rarest, but I did catch one there just prior to delivery. I'd like to see the Bowling Green Metallic come back.

    Got in line for a C8 Z06. I'm probably looking at a 3 year wait and I'm anxiously awaiting some publicity and test drives from the car rags. I know they're running some 'mules' in Michigan, maybe working out the gremlins that are sure to show up. It's not even official yet what engine they will put in it, rumors about a twin turbo setup are abound.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DEAR _JOHN View Post
    Got in line for a C8 Z06. I'm probably looking at a 3 year wait and I'm anxiously awaiting some publicity and test drives from the car rags. I know they're running some 'mules' in Michigan, maybe working out the gremlins that are sure to show up. It's not even official yet what engine they will put in it, rumors about a twin turbo setup are abound.
    Congrats! I'm hearing 2-3 years. It's anybody's guess with so much up in the air. I keep seeing references to an 8500-9000 rpm redline. The ZR1 (Zora) with 1,000 HP is purported to be "very expensive." So much so that the so called insiders aren't even speculating on a specific price range.

    I take it you'll be trading in the Hellcat?
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    2021s are already in production. Don't expect prices to come down anytime soon. Best bet is to find a dealer out in the sticks with an allocation and and pay as little over sticker as possible and wait your turn. Getting one now is going to cost you big time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magna_Cum_Laude View Post
    Congrats! I'm hearing 2-3 years. It's anybody's guess with so much up in the air. I keep seeing references to an 8500-9000 rpm redline. The ZR1 (Zora) with 1,000 HP is purported to be "very expensive." So much so that the so called insiders aren't even speculating on a specific price range.

    I take it you'll be trading in the Hellcat?
    I'm guessing around 90-100K for the Z06, but right now it's all just a guess. As far as the Hellcat goes, I will try to sell it outright. There's several Facebook pages dedicated to Hellcats and Demons and there's always someone looking for one of those cars. So I will try that first. Unfortunately I can't trade the Hellcat to a dealer in New Hampshire or Maryland, so I just have to hope for the best.


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    Quote Originally Posted by z4speedz View Post
    2021s are already in production. Don't expect prices to come down anytime soon. Best bet is to find a dealer out in the sticks with an allocation and and pay as little over sticker as possible and wait your turn. Getting one now is going to cost you big time.

    Doug
    I'm staying with one of the big 3 dealers (Kerbeck, MacMulkin, and Criswell) all with great reputations and all that sell for MSRP. Plus they all get 800 or so allocations every year. I've read too many horror stories of small dealerships agreeing to MSRP, then when the car gets in (knowing that they only get 5 allocations a year) they all of a sudden jack up the price. The price to haul the car in an enclosed trailer from the east course is around 700-900 bucks.

    Here is a horror story I just read about on Facebook

    Earlier this year (after agreeing on MSRP) that dealership sold to another Chevrolet dealer that owns multiple locations across the US. The new management never reached out to me about my car. I took it upon myself to meet the new manager two weeks ago and follow up on my order and the agreement for my car, only to find out that he was insistent on placing a $10,000 market adjustment on my vehicle.
    Yes, even though MSRP is a good profit for the dealership, it will literally be years before you can find a new Vette for under MSRP. Right now at most places, it's between 10-20K over MSRP. Something I will never do.
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    DJ....you may want to consider doing a Museum Delivery on your Vette.
    You watch it come down the assembly line and be built. You are the first to set in it and start it up and drive it forward for about 40 feet.
    I enjoyed the experience on my last Z06

    It may also help you tie down the price because the dealer never sees the car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tbone2u View Post
    DJ....you may want to consider doing a Museum Delivery on your Vette.
    You watch it come down the assembly line and be built. You are the first to set in it and start it up and drive it forward for about 40 feet.
    I enjoyed the experience on my last Z06

    It may also help you tie down the price because the dealer never sees the car.
    I thought about that. One way ticket to Nashville, have an employee from the NCM pick me up at the airport and make the one hour drive to Bowling Green. Take delivery and drive around 250 miles to one of the many casinos just south of Memphis and spend the night there. Then the long drive either to the house in the Houston area, or hang out one night at Sam's Town in Shreveport, then go home. If I were 10 years younger, it would be a thought, but as of this time, I will have them drive the car from the selling dealership in a covered carrier to my dealer who's doing a courtesy delivery.


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    Good discussion, that Z06 should be awesome - I haven't been following them all that close but I did catch a video talking about the mules running around Detroit, but also that the flat crank motors were being used at Daytona earlier in the year which was the tip-off that they would go into production. The C8 is a bitch'n ride. I think the C7 will continue to hold its own.

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    I went ahead and ordered a 3lt z51 from a large dealership located on the east coast. Since they're in the top 3 Corvette dealers I got the car for a little less than MSRP less some of the fees. It should look similar to this. z0d9f8exbk951.jpg


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    Going to be a VERY nice ride my friend. They give you an estimated time for delivery? I want a ride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tbone2u View Post
    Going to be a VERY nice ride my friend. They give you an estimated time for delivery? I want a ride.
    Probably late summer. I wonder if my ole buddy Max Rax will put on some deep cleavage tops and do some posing for me. That would be cool, but with my luck my sig other will see a picture and bobbitize me.


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    Quote Originally Posted by DEAR _JOHN View Post
    Probably late summer. I wonder if my ole buddy Max Rax will put on some deep cleavage tops and do some posing for me. That would be cool, but with my luck my sig other will see a picture and bobbitize me.
    Congrats, DJ! Will this be a 2021, then? I've been pouring through Youtube videos since getting my recent C7. What I didn't realize was how many C8s are already getting upgrades. Hennessey twin-turbo upgrades, specifically. Street Speed 717 with his C8 LMR twin-turbo upgrade seems to be the one to follow.

    I'm sure Max Rax will consider posing as time well spent. That C8 is going to be a cleavage magnet for you.

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    The Corvette Forum https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/ is the best source of accurate info on the C8. Many GM engineers and design people respond on there. My current car is a C7 Z51 7M Roadster with the 3LT interior I and still own a '75 L48 4 speed two top roadster with 29k on the clock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by z4speedz View Post
    The Corvette Forum https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/ is the best source of accurate info on the C8. Many GM engineers and design people respond on there. My current car is a C7 Z51 7M Roadster with the 3LT interior I and still own a '75 L48 4 speed two top roadster with 29k on the clock.

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    I've been on corvetteforum since my first Vette in 2009 and visit there 3-4 times a day, but in the C8 forums only.

    The forum has led me to know how simple it is to order from the east coast and have it delivered here by covered trailer, and found a local dealership here that does courtesy deliveries. I've read many horror stories about dealers getting in a car ordered at msrp and jacking up the price when the customer was ready to take delivery. Then I read stories about people shopping all over the USA only to find out that nobody had any allocations. So I just bit the bullet and ordered from a dealership on the east coast. I trust Classic in Sugarland, but they don't have any allocations at this time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DEAR _JOHN View Post
    I went ahead and ordered a 3lt z51 from a large dealership located on the east coast. Since they're in the top 3 Corvette dealers I got the car for a little less than MSRP less some of the fees. It should look similar to this. z0d9f8exbk951.jpg
    Dude! That is awesome. I saw one in person the other day...I had stop and just gawk at it.
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