National Corvette Museum Reopens With A Bang

The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky is back and ready for business, with Monday marking its first day of operation in a couple of months, aside fromcustomers picking up their Corvettes, and we're sure that plenty aChevrolet Corvettefan is again adding it to their list of summer destinations.

But while the museum hasn't been open to the public in a while, members of the staff have managed to keep themselves busy, so that now, the National Corvette Museum is reopening with an impressive, brand new exhibit. Dubbed "The Vision Realized: 60 Years of Mid-Engine Corvette Design," the exhibit documents the Corvette'slong, winding roadto the C8 generation and its rear-mid-engine layout.

The exhibit "focuses on the key vehicles that built the foundation for the 2020 Corvette Stingray," says Museum Curator Derek E. Moore. It includes display vehicles like the 1986 Corvette Indy - a mid-engine, all-wheel-drive Corvette concept powered by a 2.65-liter Indy V8 - and XP-987 - a Pininfarina-styled mid-engine prototype from the early 70s powered by a two-rotor Wankel engine and based on a VW-Porsche 914, of all things - not the last time a914 and a Corvette have been mixed.

This summer, those cars will be joined by CERV-1, CERV-II, Astro II, XP-819, and a version of XP-895 with an experimental aluminum body, built by Reynolds Metals - a company best known for their aluminum foil. Corvette history certainly is colorful.