The car that is seen on the entrance camera is placed there for people to sit in. It is on loan from GM and is not a customer car waiting for delivery.

The delivery cars are well cared for and are roped off to keep people away from them. Could someone touch one? Of course but I don't think it happens very often.

 

Nor do they at the museum.

 

Lame. So you'd rather have you car loaded onto a naked carrier and shipped across country on the interstate, or maybe on a rail car where it sits for weeks on a side rail, then the car is off loaded onto a dealer back lot where it has a PDI by a Lot Rat who has seen two vette in his entire life. I call THAT unattended. The NCM guys are pros. Your car basks in the lights for a few days untouched by anyone. Then you get taught the essentials by someone who actually understands how the car works, get a Plant Tour, and everyone in the entire museum claps as you leave. It's a class act.

 

I was responding to the poster I quoted. I was agreeing with his sound reasoning. You obviously don't recall the incidents of the new Corvette (s) roped off areas being broached/disregarded in the past at the museum then? It's not something I would want to subject my car to. Obviously, some are willing to take the risk.

 

I guess we just agree to disagree. I can assure you that many more new Corvettes are damaged during the rail and truck transportation to dealers than are an the NCM.

 

When we did a NCM pick up it was scheduled for the next day. Due to schedule we got to BG with rental car late in the afternoon the day before, and the museum was only going to be open for bout a 1/2 hour more. Told them were were there to do the pick up next day and they let us in and we went straight to our car.

A man came out of the back room, he was called by the admittance people and took us right to our car and we got a good look at it.

They take very good care of the pick up cars and will not let the general public mess them up.

 

 

Cars can be damaged anywhere, anytime. I am sure cars get damaged in transport to the museum and in the handling. And they get damaged in transport too. Many more do get damaged in transport because most are shipped, only a very small % are museum deliveries. What's key is how the damage is fixed before the car is delivered. Cars are damaged at the factory too and repaired before delivery. Most folks don't even know their car was damaged the repairs are that good and repetitive, these guys are good at repairing post production damages.

What I like about my dealer delivery. 1. He tells me when the car is due to arrive which can allow me to see it being unloaded. 2. We unwrap it together and examine it together. 3. He always offers me a test drive before I buy it, he frankly says why would you spend $X if you are not thrilled to death and for Me; #4 I select what weather I drive it home in. Its my thing........ I'll drive it to work the next day in the rain but for that first day not a long dirty trip home for me when weather cannot be worked around.

We are all each different and that is good but there are no absolutes. To say the museum is safer is nonsense. They had a sinkhole down there once upon a time, anything can happen.

I see the cars on the webcams with the 6 chrome poles around them. I see kids running, school groups, folks with strollers and I don't have that at my dealer. For one car, it was unloaded in the morning, prepped as we went to lunch and in my garage 5 hours after it came off the transport. But I had it at the grocery store the same week so I'm not a waxer, I drive em.