Not "confusing" BUT consider the many, many options and permeations that are possible. The logistics, inventory etc would cause a much more complex, expensive manufacturing!

I never even thought of needing an alternat color Corvette Script BUT what about installing a Drive Mode Wrest Rest in a different color etc etc. Heck they should be somewhere in BG! Or more likely not in the BG assembly plant but in a Tier 1 supply close by who is given an order on Monday to deliver XYZ to loading dock 22 between 1 and 2 PM on Wednesday! (Oh and not before 1 PM as the vendor delivering wheels with tires they mounted will be there!) Yep that is how all the parts for your car get there!

SIDEBAR
Reminded of the plant manager at our welding wire manufacturing plant. We had about 30 different alloys, in wire sizes ranging from 0.023 inches to 1/4 inch in packages ranging from 2 lb spool to 1000 lbs drums. He would complain that the sales folks want to walk into a candy store with barrels all different colors of Jellybeans and want them all filled to the top so they can pic one of these, 100 of those, 500 of those etc! Yep he was right, forecasting and planning for all the possibilities is not easy.

When our welding/cutting equipment plant went to an MRP system, my Market Development Groups role was to consolidate product faintly forecasts from 7 sales regions. Heck it was never close to the actual very variable demand. In fact, convinced MRP set the country back 10 years as the Japanese were going to "Just-In-Time manufacturing." Frankly until we switched that plant to cellular manufacturing where vendors filled raw materials, like bolts, nuts, brass bar stock etc with a two-bin system and did some assemble-to-order where possible our product availably and costs finally got under control.

Nope, if you want all that flexibility have to buy a ~3 million dollar Bugatti and they will custom build a car "just for you!"

 

Then what about simply leaving off the black lettering and having the dealer install the colored letters without the risk of harming the paint. I ordered the aero-delete option and the factory had no trouble knowing not to ship those parts for dealer-installation.

 

I am very surprised to learn the CORVETTE lettering is installed at the dealership and cannot understand why this is not done at assembly. Every car gets them in the same spot so its just a limited color option like many, many other things on the car. If dealership installs them, there should be an option to leave them off.

 

Would have the dealer remove and install a new set. (Yes I went with chrome letters, even though I am old I grew out of the chrome wheel thing but I still like the chrome lettering/Stingray thing).

 

Sure could make the rear letters a dealer installed option, you pick the color. Probably like many other dealer installed options sent via UPS etc from the vendor! Would avoid paint etc issues and cut BG production time or perhaps a person. A GM computer just sends a message to a vendor computer that says ship Red Letters to XYZ distributors parts department and include this VIN.

SIDEBAR
Yep know that is what happened with my 2017 Grand Sport Stage 2 Aero option. It was delivered to my dealer's parts department with my VIN #, via UPS a week before my car arrived. Those parts were never in BG nor shipped to BG by a vendor only to have BG spend the manpower and cost to inventory then when the car started to be built pay someone in BG to remove from a shelf and bring to a "Brown Truck" on shipping doc to go to a dealer.

Why I'm Sensitive To That Issue
When we became a leveraged buyout from a large multinational in 1985 I convinced a number of our gas/welding distributor owner's to let us drop ship product from our automatic retrieval system (we had ~100,000 salable parts including repair and consumable type parts like tips, cutting nozzles etc.) That avoided them paying for a repair part or small consumable item (like MIG contact tips, Heliarc collets etc) for a customer by having it received, inventoried, pulled from a shelf, shipped and all the paperwork. We shipped product several times/day and by days end sent the distributor the UPS Tracking Number.

Today many folks are doing that BUT not in 1985. Most important, our large, low cost/low price competitor would not drop ship for a distributor. In fact that competitor also sold directly to larger users and most distributor owner's did not trust giving them a name and address of their customer!

In the 4 years before we sold the business to the world's largest welding company (at double the price we paid) we gained a lot of market share and that was one reason! Was not hard showing a distributor owner that the same "Brown Truck' they were using to ship parts to their customer was the same Brown Truck that brought it from us (yep went to a distribution center but the same Brown Truck delivered!!)

 

I had thought about doing the red script but when I found out it was a dealer installed item like many other graphics type options I passed.

 

Is the chrome lettering also a dealer installed option?