If you decide to pick up your new Corvette at the ‘Shrine’, you can access a photo book of its build, discounts in the shop, track laps and much more.
Chevrolet recently took to their YouTube channel to advertise the National Chevrolet Museum and something special: the R8C delivery, which is a different way to receive your new sports car.
As well as explain what the R8C is, Chevy go through the specifics of what happens when you choose to pick up your new Corvette in Kentucky rather than at the dealership alongside all the trucks and SUVs.
The video is an inspirational love story to the ‘Vette as much as for the museum, which the workers describe as a ‘Shrine’ to the beloved national sports car hero.
Is Corvette Museum Delivery Worth It: Picking Up Your Car At The Shrine
As we’ll see in the video, Corvette Museum Delivery (R8C) is well worth it if you are able to, and if you are so inclined – it adds a great deal of fanfare to an already momentous occasion.
In the video, some of Chevrolet’s people talk us though the decision to pick up your car at the ‘Shrine’, a way to mark the day as something even more special where customers – we’re told – sometimes shed tears as they pick up that dream Corvette of their own.
It all happens at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky which opened in 1994, where the museum delivery experience allows customers to meet their cars for the first time, on show on the boulevard in the compound. Chevrolet’s own experts are in the video, on hand to guide customers through the details and features of the car and give advice as needed.
As we’ve seen recently, even getting hold of a new Corvette can be fraught with issues due to inflated prices, though this experience could add a little of the magic back into the ownership experience.
Buying A New Chevrolet Corvette In 2023
Imagine receiving a ‘baby book’ of your car as the video calls it – a step by step documentary in book form of how your car got built piece by piece.
There is also a Corvette Store, where you can get discounts on jackets, pictures, cups or whatever else takes your fancy; there are discounts also available on touring laps on two circuits, so you can try out your new car on the apexes without the worry of hitting it on a curb in town.
Not only that but Chevrolet will throw in one year’s individual membership to the Corvette Museum and membership to the NCCC – National Council of Corvette Clubs.
For some people – most people, even – acquiring your first Corvette or any sports car is a special occasion, one that some will have been waiting their whole lives and made sacrifices to achieve. So, for those people, or even people who already have 5 Chevrolet Corvette Z06s, the $995 charge for R8C delivery seems like a bargain.
