Penultimate Weekend for 2012 Corvette Racing Season

Looking forward to Race #9 of the the 10 race season for Team Corvette in the American Le Mans Series.

Saturday will be the 100th ALMS start for Oliver Gavin. 

http://www.alms.com/articles/oliver-gavin-100-not-out

Team Corvette could clinch the #1 spot for the 2012 season with a high finish.  I won't be able to watch the race becasue we will be in San Francisco to watch USC take on Stanford.

Go Trojans!  Go Corvette!

Will a 2012 Corvette be as Rare a Classic as a 1962?

Thanks to Jeff Smith for making me aware of the trend in Corvette production in the three most recent years.

Since 2010 the total number of Corvettes produced each year has been lower than any year (ignoring the C6 introductory year of 1997) since 1962!

I'm sure that a big influence on these numbers has been the economic crisis (that continues to today).

If you can get your hands on a low mileage Z06 from 2010 or 2011 for a decent price, in my book you will have a great classic in 10 years!

The details on production are shown below.  The average annual production of the C6 generation cars is the lowest since the "rare" C2 Stingrays!  Amazing!

Generation	Year	Total Production	Generation Production	Generation Average Production per Year
C-1	1953	300	69,015	6,902
C-1	1954	3,640
C-1	1955	700
C-1	1956	3,467
C-1	1957	6,339
C-1	1958	9,168
C-1	1959	9,670
C-1	1960	10,261
C-1	1961	10,939
C-1	1962	14,531
C-2	1963	21,513	117,964	23,593
C-2	1964	22,229
C-2	1965	23,562
C-2	1966	27,720
C-2	1967	22,940
C-3	1968	28,566	542,861	36,191
C-3	1969	38,762
C-3	1970	17,316
C-3	1971	21,801
C-3	1972	27,004
C-3	1973	30,464
C-3	1974	37,502
C-3	1975	38,465
C-3	1976	46,558
C-3	1977	49,213
C-3	1978	46,776
C-3	1979	53,807
C-3	1980	40,614
C-3	1981	40,606
C-3	1982	25,407
N/A	1983
C-4	1984	51,547	358,180	27,552
C-4	1985	39,729
C-4	1986	35,109
C-4	1987	30,632
C-4	1988	22,789
C-4	1989	26,412
C-4	1990	23,646
C-4	1991	20,639
C-4	1992	20,479
C-4	1993	21,590
C-4	1994	23,330
C-4	1995	20,742
C-4	1996	21,536
C-5	1997	9,752	238,230	29,779
C-5	1998	31,084
C-5	1999	33,270
C-5	2000	33,682
C-5	2001	35,622
C-5	2002	25,287
C-5	2003	35,469
C-5	2004	34,064
C-6	2005	37,372	201,659	25,207
C-6	2006	34,021
C-6	2007	40,561
C-6	2008	35,310
C-6	2009	16,956
C-6	2010	12,194
C-6	2011	13,598
C-6	2012	11,647