The C8 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is actually a really interesting sports activities automobile, providing mid-engine, naturally aspirated, flat-plane crank thrills at an accessible level of entry. However how a lot would you be keen to pay for the primary one? Apparently, $3.6 million is the magic quantity, as that’s how a lot it truly offered for at this previous week’s Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale public sale.

That’s fairly a bit of cash contemplating the automobile is anticipated to begin at beneath $100,000, however the good factor is that every one the proceeds of the sale might be going to Operation Homefront, a charity that helps army households. The customer of the seventieth Anniversary Version automobile, Rick Hendrick, is definitely the identical man who purchased the primary C8 Corvette for $3 million again in 2020. That buy set a file two years in the past for the costliest charity car donated by a producer at Barrett-Jackson, however seeing as Hendrick now purchased the Z06 for $600,000 extra, he has since damaged it.

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“We’re deeply grateful to our mates at Chevrolet and Barrett-Jackson for selecting Operation Homefront because the beneficiary of this unimaginable public sale,” mentioned Brigadier Common (ret.) John I. Pray Jr., president and CEO of Operation Homefront. “The proceeds from the sale of this sensational Corvette Z06 will go an extended solution to serving to us assist our army households overcome their monetary hardships and have the chance to thrive within the communities – our communities – they’ve labored so exhausting to guard.”

On his half, Steve Hill, Vice President of Chevrolet, mentioned: “It’s actually a privilege to assist our army members and their households by way of Operation Homefront. Proceeds from the primary retail 2023 Corvette Z06 will profit many U.S. army households throughout the nation who’ve performed a lot to serve our nation.”