We’ve seen the 2020 Stingray in the flesh on several occasions, in traditional targa and hardtop convertible guise, but now we know who will get the honor of owning VIN 001.
© Brandan Gillogly Vin #1 Corvette saleAt Barrett-Jackson’s 2020 Scottsdale sale today, the first production 2020 Corvette Stingray came up on the auction block, where it commanded a whopping $3M. Rick Hendrick, NASCAR team owner and prolific Chevrolet muscle car and Corvette collector, stepped up with the big purchase, the proceeds of which will all go to charity. Hendrick had previously bought the first-production 2019 Corvette ZR1 for $925,000. The C7 ZR1 is still the most powerful Corvette ever to leave the factory, at least until the upper performance variants of the C8 are, inevitably, revealed.
A Z51-spec model in Torch Red with a black interior, red seatbelts, and magnetic ride control, it’s equipped with the Stingray’s 6.2-liter, dry-sump, 495-horsepower LT2 V-8. Given that production of the Stingray hasn’t officially begun, this is a stand-in, the actual first Stingray will be nearly identical, albeit with black paint.
© Provided by Hagerty C8 drivingAfter starting at $100,000, bidding quickly shot up to $1M, bringing cheers from the standing-room-only crowd in Arizona. An quick, but intense back-and-forth bidding war ensued before the hammer fell on the final $3M price. All proceeds of this sale will benefit the Detroit Children's Fund, which supports Detroit-area public schools.
After toying with the idea for decades on research vehicles dating back to the ‘60s, Chevrolet has finally delivered on Zora Arkus-Duntov’s dream of a production mid-engine Corvette. In comparison, the final production front-engine Corvette, a 2019 Z06 with a seven-speed manual, sold for $2.7 million last summer at Barrett-Jackson’s Northeast Auction in Connecticut. It too was for charity, and until today, was the highest price ever paid for a new Corvette.
If you’d like to see how this sale stacks up against non-charity auction, then you’re gonna want to read this. Hendrick’s new set of wheels isn’t quite the most expensive Corvette ever sold outright—but it’s certainly close.
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Is Bigfoot "hanging out" in the Buckeye state?
Two men claim to have spotted the legendary creature in Salt Fork State Park in Eastern Ohio and a video of their purported “sighting” has gone viral.
“My friend and I got permission to fly our drones at Salt Fork State Park in Ohio,” one of the men writes, in a post accompanying the video. “While we were there we heard many strange noises and we believe we may have found the Ohio Grassman/Bigfoot/Sasquatch.” Ohio Grassman is a local nickname for Bigfoot.
SASQUATCH WATCH: BIGFOOT 'SIGHTINGS' OVER THE YEARS
The video, which shows something wandering upright on two feet among the trees, has racked up more than 260,000 views since it was posted to YouTube on Feb. 2.
The footage has prompted plenty of skepticism from commenters on YouTube. “I once thought I saw a unicorn while I was driving on I-77 one evening,” quipped one commenter on YouTube. “I was gonna stop and get a close up look but it disappeared on me.”
'BIGFOOT' REPORTEDLY SIGHTED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, PICTURES GO VIRAL
“This is the funniest video I have seen in a while,” added another commenter. “Thank you guys for some much needed comic relief and some good ol' fashioned harmless entertainment.”
A bright yellow street sign saying, Bigfoot Crossing. File photo (JLFCapture/iStock)
“Take a gun next time and shoot it or a tranquilizer dart, then we can see what it really is, good job guys on trying to keep the tradition alive, however, I really don't think anyone thinks u [sic] actually have ‘Bigfoot’ or ‘Grassman’ on video,” wrote another commenter.
There have been other alleged sightings of Bigfoot in Salt Fork State Park, according to the Daily Jeffersonian. One area of the park is even called ‘Bigfoot Ridge.’
SASQUATCH WATCH: BIGFOOT 'SIGHTINGS' OVER THE YEARS
Purported Bigfoot sightings in other parts of the U.S. have also gone viral. In 2017, the creature and some companions (one of whom was attempting to abscond with a pig) were allegedly spotted near a lake in Northern California. SEE VIDEO ; https://www.foxnews.com/tech/bigfoot-sighting-ohio-video-goes-viral