This privately made C6 Chevrolet Corvette ad includes all of the essentials of a great sports car commercial – including a sexy car on a twisty road and a sexy young lady in need of a ride.
Over the past 60+ years, General Motors has made a great many Chevrolet Corvette commercials, but private owners and hobbyist videographers have often made their own marketing videos to showcase the original American supercar. This week’s Throwback Thursday segment features one such video, with a C6 Corvette commercial created by a guy named Blake Mott.
In this privately made Corvette commercial, a red C6 is on display while it cruises through a twisty, desolate road. You will note the Z06 badges on the fenders, but unless this car has the wrong front fascia, it is actually a base C6 Corvette with Z06 badges – not a real Z06. Some viewers might gripe about the “fake Z06”, but if we ignore the incorrect badges, this is a pretty cool Corvette commercial.
The video begins with some quick beauty shots of the red C6 Corvette followed by moving footage of the Chevy sports car is it slips along the twisty road. At the same time, a lovely young lady in a short dress and high heels is wandering along that same road, which is odd, considering that they are in the middle of nowhere. The Corvette approaches her, revs a few times and appears to blast past as she watches the car drive away.
However, as the video ends, we see the lovely young lady enjoying the view of the desolate area from the passenger’s side window of the C6 Corvette before closing the window and racing off into the sunset.
If we had to guess, we would say that this is a school project of some sort for this Blake Mott and while we don’t love the Z06 badges on a base C6 – this Corvette commercial would have gotten an A in my class.
"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.
"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.
"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.
"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.
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