1st Z06 Completed: 9:26 AM Today!

Great info! Thanks so much for taking time to give a detailed account of what you are witnessing at the plant!
I will be eagerly awaiting any new information that this great week has to offer!

My car is on that line...she is coming off this week! So stoked !!

TR
Stage 1
3LZ
Ar/carbon dash
Black rims
Red roof

Tell her daddy will see her soon!!
Daha!!

More 11/10 Z06 BGAP info:

1) Spoiler:

Have to possibly backtrack from my earlier statements that the Stage 1 spoiler is exactly the same as the Z-51's except wider.

Reason: None of the spoilers vertical plates are now being attached during the assembly process. They were, but recently are no longer... Perhaps this was for easier assembly of other parts, or perhaps to prevent scratches or abrasions during either assembly or transport.

Thus, today during all three tours, every spoiler, when viewed from the back has a series of about nine "receiving bolt" holes for the vertical spoiler plates.

Hence, when I was viewing them from a frontal point of view, they do look exactly like Z-51 spoilers, but as no vertical plates were present, nor as of yet the right person to ask, just do not know definitive info about the Stage 1's spoiler yet.

Another possibility, though very unlikely, is that they were only running Z06's today with either the CFZ or CFZ option???

Will try and learn more as soon as possible...

2) Wheels:

A) Saw the first customer Z's with Spectra Gray wheels. There was only one set, on a white Z07, and that combination looked stunning.

B) Most of the Z06's being run today had black wheels, and do they every look fantastic clean/shiny/new!

C) Saw about 10% of the Z's with chrome wheels. With the 20-spoke wheel's many edges and angles, they were unbelievably reflective. Beautiful bling for those who want chrome.

D) Saw five sets of silver wheels, e.g. two on black cars, two on silver cars, and one set on a DSOM II. The silver wheels looked really nice on all of these cars.

3) Front fender grills!!!!!!!!!! There are not enough exclamation points to express how fantastic these grills look. They beautifully define/set out the Z06's side view.

4) Exhaust sound: An assembly worker gunned it while we were standing next to the car. All I can say is that the Z06's may well be the first Corvette that I have owned that I will not install an aftermarket exhaust on (wanting louder sound). Factory exhaust sounds incredibly, and delightfully loud.

Regarding the comments and questions as to who's house the Z06 is parked at. Shhhh. No one has noticed I borrowed it for the day (and it is now sitting at my friend's house). Well, nice fantasy, but, you all remember, yet all tend to forget, that NO pictures are allowed within the Plant and that is one of the 200 manufacturing validation build test Z06's, not the actual VIN # 1.

Interesting, yet not surprising story about one white Z06. On the first public tour of the day, we saw this car from across part of the plant, one that looked like a "different color white" than the rest of the white cars. We wondered whether they were testing a pearl white color or whatever???

Well, when we were closer, we could see that it was that way due to its' having a protective covering (the kind that they often put on cars during the transport process). Approximately 100 feet from the end of the assembly line, four workers appeared and started to take off the white protective covering, revealing the black paint underneath, and you already guessed this, it was Rick Henrick's VIN # 001 who received that special protective coating. Thinking the extra $900+ K he paid for it, entitled him at at least that much (option code "PROTECT").