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Old 04-05-2017, 06:00 PM
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Default How far did you travel to purchase your Corvette

As a dealer, we see customers come from all over the Country. In some cases, customers never step foot inside the dealership and have the car shipped. Just curious how far you are traveled, if at all, to purchase your dream car. Let us know your stories!
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Purchased mine from a forum dealer that was offering a discount back in 2014 via email. Never set foot in the dealership. I did NCM Delivery, so I guess you could say I travelled about 750 miles to get it.

My story: My NCM Delivery and Trip Home
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300 or so miles
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About 10 miles from dealer who sold me the car. Sampled deals from five different dealers, local and distant. Price varied over $4,000.

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Originally Posted by Zymurgy
Purchased mine from a forum dealer that was offering a discount back in 2014 via email. Never set foot in the dealership. I did NCM Delivery, so I guess you could say I travelled about 750 miles to get it.

My story: My NCM Delivery and Trip Home
Very cool! Thanks for sharing your story.
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About 10 miles from dealer who sold me the car. Sampled deals from five different dealers, local and distant. Price varied over $4,000.
Were you looking at similarly trimmed and optioned cars? Sounds like you got the best scenario possible, a good price and a short trip.
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27 miles from home. After I ordered the car and before it was built I took a job at the dealership as their Corvette Specialist.
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Fly to Omaha and driven back to Memphis (750 miles one way) but with air 1500ish.

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Two miles. I used to work at that dealership as a new car salesman in 2004 so it was cool to buy my second Corvette there.
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Originally Posted by mpuzach
27 miles from home. After I ordered the car and before it was built I took a job at the dealership as their Corvette Specialist.
Ha I like it!
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Found the vehicle here...https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...inventory-160/
Bought vehicle over the phone, and FexEx. Car shipped from Atlanta, Ga. to Sacramento, Ca., took 4 days and $1800.

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60 Miles from home
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City Chev in Charlotte,NC beat one of the "BIG 3" internet dealer price and ordered from them over the phone.

30 miles RT.

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I special ordered my 2014 Stingray from a dealer two miles from my house. Special order to get manual transmission with 2lt trim in torch red with z51 spoiler.
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Just 2 miles away!
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Mine was a somewhat unique situation. In March of 2016 I found a dealer 75 miles away in a very small town that had an unsold 2014 Arctic White, 3LT, Z51 Coupe 7 speed manual that had spent its entire life sitting on the showroom floor.

It had been test driven a few times (had 106 miles on it) but no one wanted a manual transmission. I did. MSRP was $78,155.

That included $2,180 on the sticker for dealer ordered and installed accessories. The only options it didn't have were the Carbon Fiber dash and automatic transmission.

Their advertised price was $58,900! That did include a $1000 GM incentive at the time I looked. So I bought the car that day with a $19,255 discount and I couldn't have been happier. Full warranty started when I left the dealer. I got very lucky.

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Im in Texas and purchased my car out of California, found it on cars.com and emailed the dealership then called, had a ton of pics taken and sent then finely I purchased and had it shipped in an enclosed trailer. Have a video and pic's on my instagram @tx_detox

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My house is less than 3 miles from Criswell Chevrolet. I wasn't a member of the forum when I purchased the car so I didn't know about Mike Furman. The salesman I worked with, though, took great care of me.
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1118 miles travel to New Hampshire from Florida and pick the car up my 2014 .My 2016 only had to go 16 miles. 1400 less of a discount I got 4900 more for my trade
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1/2 mile (less than a quarter mile if I cut through people's yards ) from a dealer iI've done business with many times over the years.
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