Chevrolet has started a second shift at the Corvette Assembly Plant, meaning those with C8 orders might not have to wait as long as initially expected before taking delivery.
It is understood that Chevrolet began a second shift at the plant on August 31. While operating a single shift, the Bowling Green site was building approximately 95 vehicles per day but on September 1, the first full day where both shifts were operating, 140 C8 Corvettes were built.
Corvette Blogger notes that employees in the second shift started working alongside those on the first shift to get prepared. It is understood that second shift workers had already been trained prior to the COVID-19 shutdown.
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Strikes initiated by the United Auto Workers union last year pushed back the production start of the C8 Corvette until February 3 this year. However, the Bowling Green factory was forced to shut at the end of the day on Friday, March 20 due to lockdown orders.
During this period, just 2,700 Corvettes were built and for some time, it was speculated these could be the only 2020 model year cars produced with Chevy potentially shifting immediately to 2021 cars once the site was allowed to re-open.
Ultimately, this isn’t what happened and Chevrolet continued to accept 2020 Corvette orders for a couple of more months. It is continuing to work through more than 20,000 orders for the C8 Corvette but recently admitted it won’t be able to build all 2020 model year orders with some customers being offered a 2021 model instead.
