Top 10 Craziest Corvette Options in History
We poured through all the options ever offered on the Corvette over the past 70 years to find the craziest Corvette options of them all.
If you are buying a new Corvette, you have the pleasure of selecting the exact options that you want on the car. Current production constraints notwithstanding. Choosing your options is one of the best parts of the entire process. Chevrolet sells over 30,000 Corvettes a year and you don’t want yours to look exactly the same as the one down the street. Thankfully with such a wide array of options, it is unlikely your car will ever have an exact twin. Most options are fairly standard stuff. Things like paint colors, and wheel designs are typical options. But over the course of the last 70 years of Corvette production there have been some unusual options. We took a look through the history of the model and selected the craziest Corvette options of all-time.
In our list we didn’t include things that were just a natural progression of technology. So, things like the first year of the CD player don’t make this list. When we were looking for the craziest Corvette options we tried to focus on things that were either exceedingly rare. Or prohibitively expensive. Or just flat out bizarre. As you can imagine the list of available options over the course of 70 years is vast. There were thousands to choose from. We certainly didn’t list them all. But the below are what we thought were the craziest by order of model year they were offered. Do you have others that you would add? Head on over to the Corvette Forum forums and share your own list.
1. 1957 – Heavy Duty Racing Suspension
In 1957 if you intended to race your Corvette there was the option code 684 – Heavy Duty Racing Suspension. Why is this so crazy? Surely some folks wanted to race the Corvette, and having a suspension better suited for it makes sense. However, the cost of the suspension in 1957 was $780. Keep in mind a base Corvette in 1957 cost $3,176. So, the suspension alone cost nearly 25 percent of the entire car. In 2023 terms that would be like tacking on over $16,000 just for a suspension upgrade. That probably explains why fewer than 1 percent of buyers chose this option in 1957.
