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That is one beautiful Grand Sport Corvette. Mine is exactly the same and I have the same Novistretch bra. I have black badges instead of he chrome on the fenders. Beautiful
I was on a Corvette Cruise to Colorado and I saw one of the few 2012 ZR1 Carlisle Blue Corvettes. It was like seeing a Unicorn. Rare. And Beautiful.
Originally Posted by db2012gs
I was wondering how many people on the forum own a Carlisle Blue Corvette, since there were only 535 ever made, and only in 2012.
Manufacturing numbers are:
Base coupe - 109
Base conv - 42
Grand Sport coupe - 243
Grand Sport conv - 118
Z06 - 12
ZR1 - 11
So out of 11,647 Corvettes in 2012, only 535 were Carlisle Blue.
I have one of the 243 Carlisle Blue GS coupes.
Also I have option code 40A, which is the GS heritage stripe color white, and out of 5,056 GS coupes, there were only 81 with that option in 2012. I also have the code J6D, gray brake calipers, and out of the 5,056 GS coupes, only 248 had that option in 2012. So I have a few rare options on my car.
They are OEM Torque II wheels which were debuted on the Carlisle Blue car when it was introduced at the Corvettes at Carlisle show in 2011. They never made it into production (at least that's what was thought) but at the end of the production run of the C6, apparently GM released sets to vendors to sell. Not many sets were actually produced. I purchased mine from Nate at Nate's Garage (a forum vendor). He may have some remaining. I do believe there is another vendor who was selling them as well but you would have to look. I'm sure they are fairly scarce right now. At the Carlisle show, the painted ones were on the car but I have never seen those only the chromies.
Beautiful Carlisle Blue OP.
Regarding the chrome OEM Torque II wheels- Grady is literally the only other GS I have ever seen that has them outside of mine.
Last edited by Evander Holyfield; Apr 2, 2017 at 11:24 PM.
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recently purchased another Carlisle blue. I had a brand new one for a couple years that I purchased in November of 2011. Recently ran across a very low mileage and well kept base 1lt manual with the rare machined five spoke wheels and couldn't pass her up. Just need some nice weather to get some more pictures. My fifth c6 and my most recent Vette before this one was a 2015 Stingray loaded up so 6 total....
I had a fleeting thought to drive mine 800 miles to Carlisle in 2018, but decided it wasn't worth a 12 hour drive when there are other meets much closer. Bloomington Gold was only four hours away, and Funfest is only two.
I would love to have a convertible one, but the only one I could find had a beige top. YUCK!
I had a fleeting thought to drive mine 800 miles to Carlisle in 2018, but decided it wasn't worth a 12 hour drive when there are other meets much closer. Bloomington Gold was only four hours away, and Funfest is only two.
I would love to have a convertible one, but the only one I could find had a beige top. YUCK!
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ZR1 Carlisle Blue Corvette
