Street Muscle brings us the word that now is the time to Tour The Corvette Plant in Kentucky Before It’s Too Late…
If you love Chevrolet’s Corvette, you might want to plan a trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky soon. That’s because the National Corvette Museum has announced that tours of the GM Bowling Green Assembly Plant, where Corvettes are manufactured, will be suspended beginning Monday, February 5, 2024. The reason for this closure is not clear, but it could be related to some major changes in the production of the iconic sports car. Translation, there is some new tech brewing at the plant that Mother GM wants to keep under wraps.
First-Hand Experience
Your humble scribe has toured the Corvette factory, and I assure you it’s a life-changing experience. Situated in the rolling hills of Bowling Green, Kentucky, you would never know that the world’s best sports car is quietly being manufactured here. Corvette moved to the Bowling Green site, formerly a Chrysler air conditioning facility, in 1981.
After reading that you may be wondering “where were corvettes built before Bowling Green?” The answer is St. Louis, MO! From 1954 to 1982 the Chevrolet plant at Grand and Natural Bridge produced America’s sports car. Channel 9 PBS has a film review of the production process you can watch here.
(graphic via CorvSport.com)
