Russinoff began turning drawings into models. At 16, he submitted an entry for the Fisher Body Craftsman s Guild. The following year, he earned third place in the Michigan state competition for auto design. The year after that, he won, securing a $4000 scholarship with a model of a rear-engined sedan. His love of design was cemented.
A Detroit native and lifelong GM artist who retired in 1995, Russinoff died in November at the age of 90. This weekend, Eclectic Attic Estate Sales will host a two-day estate sale at Russinoff s Farmington, Michigan home. The collection includes abstract paintings, plenty of midcentury modern furniture, and it highlights his his drawings and prints, automobile memorabilia, personal tools, and even his drafting table.
Two new colors for the 2021 C8’s eh? I bet that was a years worth of “brain drain” for someone on the Corvette Team!
Come on guys….seriously, that’s it? What is needed here is “something special” (but attached to every Base C8 Corvette every year new year of production) to denote a quick visible ident of that particular car’s model year.
Really quite simple, Corvette’s in the past have had certain items added or subtracted to denote each year…except for a few years where nothing really was done, and that, to me wasn’t a good thing. Point in question…if a 2020 Corvette and 2021 Corvette were parked side by side, and say in basic white, maybe with a red interior (base or Z-51) could you tell the difference between them as you walked up to them both? Even “close up”…could you differentiate any differences between them?
It only rolled off the production line three weeks ago.
The vehicles that fetch the highest amounts at auction tend to be those that are particularly rare, almost anything that qualifies as an exotic, or models with unique distinctions that set them apart. In the case of this listing on Mecum Auctions, the latest star is a 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C8 Convertible. This particular example, finished in Sebring Orange paint, is the final Corvette to be produced for the 2020 model year, which automatically makes it that much more of a collector s item. Mecum Auctions
Not a bad way to turn things around, GM.
The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a remarkably tuneable machine, but it has been fraught with issues. Transmissions have failed after less than 50 miles, and hoods have flown open while owners have been driving the car. The new owner of the 2021 Corvette you see below is someone who experienced the reliability issues of the C8 firsthand but to an even more severe degree.
With only 500 miles on the clock, Brian M. Bowling was getting on a freeway when his car started to leak oil before it caught fire. As you can imagine, he was not impressed. To make up for it, GM has given him the very first 2021 production Vette to come off the line.