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Old 02-21-2018, 06:53 PM
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~I have been thinking about doing a post like this where I show all the different Generations of Corvettes as they either leave the plant via truckload or by train and then arrive at the dealership. Having started selling Corvettes during the tail end of the 3rd Generation I felt it would be good to share these pics starting from Generation 1 all the way thru current day 7th Generation. So here are pictures spanning 66 years of Corvette production 1953 thru the model year 2019.

~C1~











~C2~





~C3~











~C4~





















~C5~













~C6~















Frank Class and one of the many Corvettes he bought from me...













~C7~











~~~A long long time ago...1985...Hard at work...Malcolm Konner Auto.




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Cool pics!! Thanks for sharing.
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Great Pic as usual Mike. Hope to see here in C3 more often....
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Absolutely great!! No pics of early C3 delivery? I like the progression of the car carrier technology!! Thanks Ike
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I'll take a train car load of c2's.
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Thanks for sharing.
I drove a car carrier for years but never moved any Corvettes.


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Great Pic as usual Mike. Hope to see here in C3 more often....
Although I started selling Corvettes with C3’s in July of ‘78....and have owned 18 Corvettes...i’ve Never owned a C3, the only generation I haven’t owned...yet.

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Your still a young man!!! Plenty of time to get one!!! Thanks again!! Ike
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I have seen the transports full of corvettes before!!! once they had the purple and gold Daytona 500 cars on it going to dealers, WHAT a sight!!!
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I have seen the transports full of corvettes before!!! once they had the purple and gold Daytona 500 cars on it going to dealers, WHAT a sight!!!
Wish I had a picture of that! I had much more but Hurricane Sandy destroyed 80% of my collection back in October 2012.

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Cool good pics , brings back memories .
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Hi Ike,
"No pics of early C3 delivery? "

Here are a couple of 68-82 era cars arriving in the Boston area by rail.
These photos are from CF member Ralph S..

And then a VEGA shipping photo that is....... amazing.
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Absolutely great!! No pics of early C3 delivery? I like the progression of the car carrier technology!! Thanks Ike


Very cool... Thank you for sharing these.
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Wow, great photos. I cannot imagine them stacking cars vertically like that!!! Ike
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So very cool. Thanks for sharing those amazing historical pictures!
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Very cool... Thank you for sharing these.
Thank you so much for sharing those cool pics of the C3 on the train.



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