My blood pressure strarted to go up when I began reading this thread. I have never tried to order a car in advance untill now, and I have been driving and buying cars for
nearly 40 years. But the ZL1 is no ordinary car and it's A vehicle I plan on driving for many years. I started my compulsion (obsession) with this car even before we
knew what it's name was going to be. Was it going to be the well known and much anticipated Z28, the obscure not so well name of ZL1 or some entirely new name?
So I went to my local dealer and the salesman was the nicest person you would ever meet. This was feb 2011 and I gave all the info I has gathered about this car. I
also gave him a deposit and we shook hands that I would purchase the car at MSRP. Then over the next several months I came by the dealership to see how's he doing
and drool over the 25 corvettes (5 or 6 ZR1's), and the 30 plus camaro's on the lot.
Anyway around the beginning of June my wife and I decided to attend the big camaro event going on in Frederick md. The ZL1 was going to be there and so was a very special spokesperson Mr. Camaro himself (Scott). When we saw
the ZL1 and I actually talked to Scott and sat in that car it was like the feeling of buying my very first car when I was 17 years old. My wife took some pictures and Scott and I just talked about cars in general. But one short conversation stuck in my head more then anything. I had told Scott I had placed a deposit with my dealer several months earlier and was getting the car at MSRP, his almost immediate reply was DID YOU GET IT IN WRITING? Feeling somewhat embarrassed I kinda said in a low voiceno with a puzzled look. Well I continued to go and visit my dealer over the many
months to follow to keep my salesman up to date. I then get a call from him around the allocations to the dealers were being released ( I think it was Nov) and says I have great news were getting 6 and your first on the list. I said awesome and talked about how great this car was going to be etc etc. But the he had to tell me some bad news as well which was that he could not honor our original agreement of the MSRP and that upper management was wanting 10k more. My stomach went into knots, and I had to tell him that I would have to pass on the car. I knowif he could have he would have sold the car at the priced we had agreed on. So like ten months of having a deposit placed turned out to be a waste of my time and energy.
Oh they did return my deposit to me np there, but I learned a valuable lesson that day. Make sure to get your agreements in writing, Scott had given me some wise advice at the show but I was to nieve to heed it.This is just chapter one of my lessons learned of trying to buy my ZL1 (obsession, my precious). I think the hardest part now is everyone (wife, brothers,friends, even my parents) asking me where's your new car you said you ordered?
