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Now that the Bowling Green GM Corvette Assembly plant is once again open for
public tours, the National Corvette Museum is expecting to see more tour requests
than in the past five years since the plant closed to the public. As part of the National
Corvette Museum experience, its newest exhibit features more than 35 years of
corvette history, called “Callaway Corvettes.”
Callaway Corvettes are developed out of engineer processes in Old Lyme, Conn.,
Temecula, Ca., and Weingarten, Germany. The engineers who have worked on these
cars are known for testing the boundaries of power and creating new methods of
truly superpowering America’s favorite sports car.
The company was born in 1977 when Reeves Callaway was reworking his BMW-3
series and recognized by Car and Driver magazine. He started working with major
car manufacturers to develop new systems for their cars. He caught the attention of
General Motors with his work on Alfa Romero cars. After several years of
development, the first Callaway Corvette was produced in 1986 with an all-new
twin turbo engine option.
By 1992, it was time for the second generation of Callaway Corvettes to debut, with
a turbocharge option that dubbed them truly “supernatural” corvettes. It was such a
popular option that Callaway expanded the offer to Camaro and Impala models too.
The Callaway Corvettes continued to see more orders and improvements into the
2000s. The 25th and 35th anniversary Callaway Corvette models were made even
more special with throwback features and documents.
National Corvette Museum visitors can see the Callaway Corvettes exhibit as part of
regular museum admission now thru late February 2023. That’s it for Throwback
Thursday brought to you by Hart County Tourism.
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