Due to manufacturing advancements, tours offered by the National Corvette Museum of GM’s Bowling Green Assembly Plant will be suspended beginning Monday, February 5, 2024. At this time, there is no confirmed date for plant tour resumption. The National Corvette Museum will remain open to the public and continue regular operations. To reserve your spot through Friday, February 2, 2024, visit us online at corvettemuseum.org. As more information is made available, it will be shared by the National Corvette Museum.
Just got this email from the Corvette Museum, which is just across the street from the Corvette assembly plant. Interestingly, it doesn't say "ending tours" or that they would never do them again plus they state "no confirmed date for plant tour resumption" which tells me that tours aren't dead, just suspended until they're done doing whatever it is they're planning and they're not giving any hard dates to resume. "Manufacturing advancements" might be double-speak for construction zones placing in new equipment for future models or placing in more robots reducing the human work force. Not sure what is meant by that. Could be nothing, could be something.
If you never have been on a Corvette plant tour, it's pretty cool. What's cool to me is my dad's "retiree" badge picture on the wall with all the other retirees. So if you ever find yourself on I-65 going by Bowling Green, KY, at exit 28, just swing off the highway ramp onto Hwy 446 and you're there (make a left onto Corvette Drive at the Shell station.)