
With the launch of the Make and Price tag Configurator for the 2023 Corvette Z06, each individual of the CorvetteBlogger writers are sharing their desire builds and then we’ll have a vote-off so you can establish the ideal Z06 configured. Initial up is Mitch Talley!
They generally say it will take making a several houses to produce your best aspiration house.

That adage also applies to desire Corvette Z06s, as well.

While in a perfect earth, with lots of funds to toss about, I would have a 2023 Z06 sitting in my driveway, I’m beautifully information with my 2023 Stingray that I obtained from our pal Mike Furman on Labor Day weekend.


But considering that Keith is footing the bill for a Z06 – wink, wink – I figured why not see what my desire Z06 would seem like – and at what expense.

Due to the fact I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s when Corvettes weren’t pretty powerful but were some of the most lovely cars at any time created, I have often been a greater admirer of the appears to be like than the energy. The only time I’ve even been on a monitor in my Corvette was in 2014 when I served as the captain of the Georgia staff for the 20th anniversary of the National Corvette Caravan – one particular of the highlights of my 39 many years of possessing a Corvette, for absolutely sure. Even then, as I led the pack about the then-new Motorsports Park monitor, I absolutely was keeping the other individuals back in my Torch Pink ’97.

That’s why my dream create for a new Z06 focuses extra on look than functionality. 


My initial C8 was a 2020 Stingray coupe – a Torch Pink over Adrenaline Red 2LT that I purchased via my son Chris in his remaining times as a salesman at Carl Black Chevrolet in Kennesaw, Georgia. I imagined that was just one gorgeous automobile and even carried all the family with me to Bowling Inexperienced to decide on up the motor vehicle at the Countrywide Corvette Museum. I thought it was heading to be my permanently Corvette, until the market place turned so sizzling that I couldn’t resist dipping my toe in the drinking water. I wound up advertising it on June 2, 2021, and immediately bought on the waiting around checklist with Mike Furman.

This time all over, nevertheless, I manufactured a couple modifications, and I am absolutely thrilled with my possibilities – the world wide web images and develop-and-price images merely do not do justice to Hypersonic Grey. If you are wanting for a mean-seeking Corvette, you need to have to go see a Hypersonic Gray Stingray in individual. I like it!


I had absent with a coupe on my ’20 Stingray for the reason that I wanted to appreciate on the lookout at the motor, but on my ’23, I resolved that the convenience – and a great deal a lot more exotic appearance – of a hardtop convertible signifies a lot more to me. While that ugly plastic go over hides my 495-horsepower engine from sight, I don’t regret my conclusion at all. The black nacelles and roof on my ’23 proved to be a attractive accent to the Hypersonic Gray paint, and if you’re toying with the “stripe, no stripe” dilemma, permit me hugely endorse in its place the Stingray R Physical appearance Deal – the very best $695 I invested on my automobile, palms down! Shots again really don’t do justice to this stripe – which looks so considerably far better in human being.

In any case, I explain to you all this to give you an thought of where I’m headed with my Z06 build.

Even though I did not head masking up the motor in my Stingray, I absolutely want the full earth – and me – to see that superb bespoke jewel of a motor in my Z06 each individual time I walk previous and glimpse at it out the rear window. As a result, I’m starting off out with a 2LZ coupe – in Hypersonic Gray, of study course. I really like the way the Adrenaline Red interior pops from the HG, but this time, due to the fact I’m not paying for it, I chose the upgraded GT2 bucket seats in two-tone black and AR. The sueded microfiber-wrapped steering wheel is a compelled invest in at $695 with individuals seats, a decision I’d most likely not make until compelled since I’m not a major supporter of the suede search.


Considering that the Z06’s typical functionality is far more than plenty of for me, I’m written content with the stock tires and really don’t see any require for the carbon-fiber wheels or Z07 Efficiency Package (especially for the price tag – you can thank me later on, Keith!). I’m articles in its place with the seem of the $495 spider-layout black cast aluminum wheels and $695 Brilliant Red-painted brake calipers.

Along those lines, nevertheless, I did splurge for the $8,495 Carbon Flash-Painted Carbon Fiber Carbon Aero Package deal that actually makes the Z06 search a whole lot meaner, if that’s even doable. Even so, that package deal also forces you to pay another $8,495 far more for the Functionality Brembo Carbon Ceramic Antilock Brakes – which are not vital for my applications.


Folks question me all the time in my hometown if I’m going to get a Z06, but the real truth is that it is just as well a great deal car for me – particularly at a generate-out rate of $142,050 the way I would want it geared up. The inventory Stingray is more than more than enough for me, and I could even use the spare transform to get a couple of classic autos, the way I utilised the proceeds from offering my 2020 Stingray to purchase a different 1970 Monte Carlo, my first car at any time back in 1976 and just one of the couple cars and trucks I’ve regretted shedding.

Click here to view Mitch’s Hypersonic Grey Z06 on the Develop and Price Configurator.

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