{"id":95875,"date":"2014-04-13T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=95875"},"modified":"2014-05-17T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T06:26:12","slug":"first-production-corvette-z06-sells-for-1-million-at-barrett-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/04\/13\/first-production-corvette-z06-sells-for-1-million-at-barrett-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"First Production Corvette Z06 Sells for $1 Million at Barrett-Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-2-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"First Production Corvette Z06 Sells for $1,000,000 at Barrett-Jackson \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-2-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As has become common for all newly released US performance cars, the very first production <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/03\/08\/first-2015-chevrolet-corvette-z06-being-auctioned-for-charity\/\" title=\"Chevrolet Camaro Z06 Auction\">Corvette Z06<\/a> has been sold in aid of charity. The Z06 hit $1 million which will go to Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center. The lucky owner is owner of NASCAR team Henrick Motorsports Rick Hendrick.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrick also bought the first 2014 Corvette Coupe and Convertible at last year&#8217;s auctions. 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The auction also included the first retail production 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z\/28 which achieved a sale figure of $500,000 when it was sold to Dave Flynn of the Flynn Automotive Group. The money from that sale will go to benefit the AARP\u2019s Drive To End Hunger program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-3-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"First Production Corvette Z06 Sells for $1,000,000 at Barrett-Jackson \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95878\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, a Smokey and the Bandit Special Edition 1977 Trans Am achieved a $44,000 figure, a Packard 1207 V12 achieved $300,000 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2014\/04\/13\/need-for-speed-ford-mustang-auctions-for-300000-at-barrett-jackson\/\" title=\"Need for Speed Ford Mustang Sale\">Need for Speed Ford Mustang<\/a> managed $300,000 too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"First Production Corvette Z06 Sells for $1,000,000 at Barrett-Jackson \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2014-Corvette-Z06-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photos via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carbuyingtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CarBuyingTips.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has become common for all newly released US performance cars, the very first production Corvette Z06 has been sold in aid of charity. The Z06 hit $1 million which will go to Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center. The lucky owner is owner of NASCAR team Henrick Motorsports Rick Hendrick. Hendrick also bought the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":95876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29438],"tags":[20686,92,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}