Unfortunately, the one - millionth was one of the cars that fell into the sinkhole, and the restoration was not easy. It was unveiled today at the national corvette museum, where it returns as part of the permanent exhibit. · after 4 months and 1,200 man hours, restoration work of the milestone one millionth corvette is now complete. · yesterday gm revealed the fully restored 1 millionth corvette , and now we can see the restoration in action The red leather seats with ‘1,000,000th corvette ’ embroidery were patched, the front subframe was straightened, destroyed ancillaries were replaced by donor parts from a car of the same vintage, and the team managed to unkink the crushed windscreen header rail – apparently once. After more than four months and 1,200 man-hours of painstaking craftsmanship, restoration of the milestone 1 millionth corvette – a white 1992 convertible – is complete. The other five that ended up at the bottom of the hole ‘will remain in their as-recovered state to preserve the historical significance of the cars’,. The national corvette museum is undertaking repair to a 1962 model. The restored car will return to the national corvette museum as a permanent exhibit. See full list on carmagazine. co. uk · after more than four-months and over 1,200-man hours, the painstaking feat of expert craftsmanship and skilled restoration is complete. · one of general motors major milestones is reaching one million corvettes. Two of three items beyond repair were scanned and the signatures reapplied as transfers to maintain maximum authenticity. The car will now be returned to the permanent exhibit where it will join the extensive collection of corvettes currently on display. In the end, the restoration team was able to save all but three of the original components with signatures, even going so far as to fix the rear facia and front exhaust system – items most restorations would simply supplant. Chevrolet has already restored one of the corvettes damaged in the sinkhole incident, a 2009 zr1 prototype nicknamed the blue devil. Autographs or no, originality was maintained where possible throughout.
