Does the top fit in the frunk?
While awaiting my 21 C8....my mind is spinning.....

Just thinking if we go for a drive and need the trunk space for luggage, will the top (if carefully placed in padded bag, LOL) fit in the frunk?

 

A NO!
B It is designed to lock into the dedicated Latches in the Trunk.
C if you have that much stuff, leave the top on.
D life is always a compromise and choice unless ...

 

Unfortunately no. The rear trunk is the only space wide enough to accommodate the top, and has special brackets to hold it securely.

 

Thanks Guys....knowledge is important

 

There is no storage in the rear with the top out. They literally designed the entire rear of the car around just barely fitting the targa top. They even took steps to shorten the targa panel length relative to past Corvettes.

 

No way! Here are some dimensions:

Frunk can hold a larger Pizza BUT will need a shelf!


Even though the Truck will hold 2 Golf Bags I fabricated what you see below. It comes part and stores in the Storage Net.

 

If you get the Convertible, you can put the top down and still have the trunk and frunk space.

 

Haha...well no convertible for me and certainly NO food in my baby....LOL.

I'll just have to make due....suffering perhaps smiling all the way.

thanks all...g

 

My wife's in-vehicle food consumption habits are why I'm getting WeatherTech FloorLiners and passing on the OEM carpet mats. At least she waits for rest stop toilets before she lets loose.

I'll likely be carrying the occasional sack of $hit (i.e. manure) home from the garden center in my C8 HTC "baby" and sometimes pulling my utility trailer with the hitch I'm going to have fabricated if I need to bring home even more crap. It's a car.

 

"before she lets loose". Sounds like the romance is long gone in that marriage, YUK.

 

Atleast he didn't refer to her as the sack

 

He might as well have.

 

Or buy the HTC, which lets you put the top down without losing any trunk space.

 

Amazing; Chevrolet built the Corvair with ample front trunk space back in 1960. Obviously the designers of the C8 didn’t do their homework. Seems C8 cargo space was poorly thought out.

 

That has to be the weirdest comparison I've ever seen - ever! The Corvair had a boxy front end, an air cooled engine and didn't have radiators in the front and a bunch of plumbing running to the back. Maybe they existed but I never saw a Corvair with air conditioning either and I saw a lot of Corvairs.

I have to agree with Ralph Nadar with his "unsafe at any speed" opinion of the Corvair. I remember when my buddy Kirk "attempted" a hard, fast left turn in his dad's Corvair in the mid-60's with me in the front passenger seat ,,, except that the U-joint on the steering shaft broke and we continued through the T intersection into a driveway. Gosh, we were lucky that driveway was there.

I just remembered that it was at that same T intersection that I found $105 laying on the roadway about 10 years ago. I slammed on the brakes when I saw what looked like money laying on the road, backed up and found a $100 and $5 bill along with an empty cigarette package. I guessed that someone reached into his shirt pocket and inadvertently threw away the money with the empty cigarette package. Even funnier, my father wanted to call the local small town radio station and ask them to ask their listeners if anyone had lost $105.

The C8 has a hair less total trunk space than a full size Lexus LS sedan I drove for 10 years. If the Lexus could easily carry enough luggage for four adults for week long trips, a C8 HTC should have enough space to carry what my wife and I need for month long trips.

For those who like to drive with the top off as much as possible, I see the C8 coupe being a local use car and the C8 HTC being the travel car.

 

Nice try. The Corvair's trunk was 13 cubic feet. The C8's combined trunk space is 12.6 cubic feet. That .4 cubic feet loss on the C8 is a BIG deal (to you) I suppose.
Got to hand it to you...dragging out a SIXTY YEAR OLD design in an attempt to troll is brilliant. Sadly, it didn't work.

 

The late model (65 up) had a very stylish front end, didn't have the Ralph Nader described problem. You could get air conditioning too,

I loved my 66 Corsa, and wish I could find another.

 

I drove (and raced) my modified '67 Corvair very aggressively and never had or heard of a steering problem. And I had the Optional Quick Steering available that year along with every other HD option offered. Went to Plus 1 wheels and performance tires and many other mods! Great car.

Ralph Nader proved many lawyers don't tell the whole truth (lie!) Said the '60 to '64 swing axle was made safe with a device sold by JC Whitney and quoted the info in their catalog. Never said the same device in the same ad was available for VW's and Porsche's! Also didn't say the main benefit listed was improved faster handling NOT safety! He also used the '65 through '69 Corvairs with their parallelogram rear suspension (like a Vette) to say GM changed it because they knew swing axles (used by a number of cars back in the day) was unsafe! All BS. Few every read the Owner's Manual (what's new) which for all year Corvairs said set front tire pressure to 16 psi! That promoted Understeer. Before I bought my '67 had an early Corvair with swing axles. IF you knew how to drive and followed their front tire pressure recommendation of 16 psi it was no problem. Used to toss it around as well.

In fact the real issue was folks didn't know how to correct a high speed skid with a 60% rear weight car. Tadge said his Dad a military pilot and drove his Porsche of the era very aggressively. Said he knew all about excess Oversteer and "It was his biggest fear when they were designing the C8!" In fact was my concern as well because most FE Corvette owner's don't know what to do either! Fortunately GM was able to design the C8 with what Tadge said "Took Porsche decades to resolve with their 60+% rear heavy 911's!" He said they were actually able to design in some Understeer at the limit!

Pic of daughter sitting on my early Corvair! Pic below that is the same color as my '67 and had similar Plus1 Wheels and tires. I also added headers and other mods.

Not my '67 but the same OEM color ( had it repainted silver) and I had similar 14 inch wheels and low profile Continental 714 radial high performance tires! "Low Profile and Plus 1" were not words used back in the day!

 

I've owned eight Corvairs, autocrossed both earlys and lates for ten years with no 'Nader problems' and none by any of my fellow club members. Do what you should do with any vehicle, read the owner's manual and set the tire pressures correctly and you will be fine. I would love to have a nice 1966 Corsa 140 coupe.

 

I have a soft spot in my heart for Corvairs.
I had a '64.
My auto shop teacher had a later model that he made mid-engine V8.
I had Baja Bug with a turbocharged Corvair engine. I could get the front wheels off the ground. I went through a lot of transaxles.