Corvettes

One of the places that we visited on our vacation last week was the Corvette Factory and the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. We saw the museum last year when we drove to Nashville, TN to visit with the Eppley's. We decided to visit with Isaac in mind. He has been into cars off and on for the last two years. It ended up being something that everyone really enjoyed.

We started at the NCM but the tour of the factory started in about an hour. So, we watched the history of Corvettes video and drove over to the factory. They didn't even allow cell phones in the factory. So, no pictures... :( I was a super cool place. Amy keeps saying that is was like a live, in person How It's Made. We spent about 2 hours walking through the plant on a guided tour. It was very clean. We watch them start with the frames, add the body in pieces, drop in the seats, add the dash, test the electronic; then the car raised up into the ceiling. They turn around in the ceiling and drop back down to the production line where they meet up the the power train. The wheels, engine, transmission, drive line and suspension are all assembled and the 'trimed out' car lowers on top and they are attached. What a neat tingle we all got as we got close to the testing area and hear them start up the brand new Corvettes. Each one is tested at 70 MPH in a booth, then run on a 1/4 mile track and blasted with 12 gallons per minute of water. Lots of testing to make sure that they are ready.

After the factory tour and some lunch we headed back to the museum.

Unfortunately we couldn't use the premium parking.This was a sweet little statue of a '50's Vette done with camouflage and dedicated to American soldiers.
Lexy found a pink Corvette in the museum. She was having fun anyway, but this put it over the top for her. Even the premium parking was full at one point in the day...

There were a half a dozen cars in the breezeway of the museum building. They all had these little signs in from of them.

One thing that Isaac was into was that during the introduction video that talked about the history of Corvettes they mentioned that there is only one (1) 1983 Corvette. And it was in the museum. Here is a picture of Isaac with that car.