To me, doing a Buyers Tour, which I have done on both my C6 and my C7 Z06’s were the single best experiences of both of their ownership. Spending two/three days walking along side your car being built, with your personal guide who never leaves your side, and your single invited guest, is unequalled IMO. Your guide is, most of the time, a just-retired, BGA plant worker. As you walk along as parts of your car are progressively added onto it, your guide points out literally hundreds, if not 1,000+ details over the approximate 15 hours.
What is a special extra treat, is that many of the assembly line employees, as their time allows, will come over and talk to you (you and your guest are readily visible in your safety vests), and the employees’ know that it is
your Corvette that they are building. They are friendly, and IMO, their knowing your are watching your car being built by then, your car’s assembly get their very best expertise.
I remember on my C7, that one of the workers, a huge gentlemen carrying what looked like an eight pound rubber mallet, before starting on my car, came over to me and said, “I do not want you to be worried, that the very loud thunks from my beating on your car, will cause any damage, but I will be seating the carpet in the corner behind the seats, and it takes a massive shot on each corner to properly make it confirm to that corner.”
And damn, it was a couple of super loud hits that followed. Afterwards, he came back over and said, “your carpet is seated perfectly, and your car was uninjured” — with a huge smile on his face. And then we talked a a little more.
Again, if Buyers Tours are delayed, I will delay my ME’s order going in.
Here’s the details, and please do not worry about the legal disclosure statement in the below link, that you might not see you actual car be made, for in the years of that program, averaging hundred of them annually, no one has failed to see their own Corvette be made.
Buyers’ Tour – National Corvette Museum
