Corvette is a great game. If you have a spare set of Sys11 drop targets, I suggest putting the drop targets back in the game.

I have a frankenproto Corvette pin - a NOS wired prototype Corvette playfield dropped in a production corvette cabinet from a partout. I pulled the playfield out of the rafters of a corvette speed shop in Bowling Green, KY USA - Bowling Green is where Chevrolet builds the Corvette.

George Gomez and team took prototype Corvette pins to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green back when the museum opened.

The guy I got the playfield from bought a game, and bought a spare wired playfield for parts. When he sold the game to someone, the person didn't want the spare playfield. So, he put it on eBay.

The prototype Corvette playfields have some neat differences. George filled me in on most of them. The yellow inserts with the cars are blue with a neat overlay on them. A few protos had a 4 speed shifter assy on the side of the cabinet. I'm working on retrofitting this to my Corvette.

There's not much info out there about the prototype, although I can see that the game is so cluttered that it should have been a wide body game.


Update


The Pinball Inc ramp arrived and it is a ripper of a ramp. Fully populated except for the gates, coil and other items that need to be moved from the old ramp. There's more "going on" with this ramp than meets the eye. Considering the main "toy" is part of the ramp, it is an engineering marvel. Really well designed. Of course there is a bit of work with installing the ramp, but the good news is that it fits perfectly and looks great !





The front door and ugly carriage bolts are taken care of by a repaint. There's not much that can be done unless a new front decal is installed, but I like to paint the bolts and clear them. The front door and frame are removed, cleaned and repainted to the original look. This door was a semi gloss instead of the flat black of the previous doors. Still looks a lot better !





There was a previous repair done to the headbox which I didn't like. The back panel was removed for some reason and a dodgy repair done. I was curious to know "why" so I removed the back panel to see for myself. It looks like a section was pushed back as it broke the ground braid. I ended up removing the back panel completely and refitting it correctly. Took a while, but it is 100% now.





I'll have to attend to this - the only blemish on the cabinet





Here's the repaired headbox. A fresh coat of paint on the inside and also the outside








All the boards have been checked and repaired. They are all 100%.





All the cleaned head hardware is re assembled.





Back to the playfield !