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Someone probably told you not to buy a white car because it would be sooo hard to keep clean, right? Don’t worry – we don’t listen either, and several of us at Vette Lab have gorgeous white cars we wouldn’t trade for any other color. But there is truth to the statement that white cars require more maintenance to look their best. One of the most frequent questions we get from white car owners regards small specks of rust that show up as tiny orange spots on the white paint. Not surprisingly, t …

We see this question a lot on forums and Google searches. The bottom line: Both the C5 and C6 Corvettes are great cars. They’re very well engineered and carefully built. We’re not going to defend everything GM has ever done – the company has turned out some real turds, but the Corvette has never been among them, even during its worst, lowest-horsepower days in the late 1970s. Every Corvette has contained the General’s best engineering, and for the most part the people building them have taken …

It has been seriously busy in the Vette Lab shop lately, but due to some of the employee precautions we're taking because of the COVID-19 virus, things are moving more slowly. At least the speed of the work is a little slower...the Corvettes coming out of Vette Lab have been anything but! Vette Lab is now a distributor for some outstanding performance parts companies: Magnuson Superchargers, Katech Engineering, and Halltech Cold Air Intakes. That we carry Corvette performance parts from the …

Remove orange spots from your white Corvette for a showroom clean! White Corvettes -- really all white cars and trucks in general -- are notoriously hard to keep clean. Even if you drive your Corvette sparingly, keep it covered in the garage and wash it regularly, if it's white, it's eventually going to show dirt and debris. There's nothing you can do to prevent it, but there's plenty you can do to get your white car clean again. Truly clean! Vette Lab has put together a white …

Corvette exhaust primer: Axle back vs Cat Back exhaust systems When you’re shopping for a new 1997-2019 Corvette exhaust system, you’ll quickly come up against two similar terms: Axle Back and Cat Back. Even though both types of exhaust systems will give you the throaty rumble (or wide-open roar) you’re looking for on your C5, C6 or C7, there’s often a significant price difference between them. You need to know what these terms denote so you can choose the exhaust system that’ll …