Here’s Your Chance to Own a Rare 2019 Indy 500 Corvette Stingray Festival Car

Corvette convertible wears 2019 Indy 500 logos and a window sticker signed by James Hinchcliffe.

The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport served as the official pace car for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. For decades, the automaker which provides the pace car also provides a larger group of “festival cars”. These cars are used by local business leaders and event officials to cruise around the Indianapolis area on the week of the big race. They are also used to carry each of the drivers in the Indy 500 field in the festival parade in downtown Indianapolis, hence the name “festival cars”. Afterwards, they are sold at dealerships around Central Indiana, creating some very cool collectables.

The problem is that with very limited numbers of these festival cars created each year, they are very rare. The number of festival cars built each year varies, but they generally build around 50 cars, making them hard to come across on the used market. This is especially true if you live far from Indiana, but if you are an Indy 500 fan who wants a special C7 Corvette Stingray convertible, you are in luck.”Jrkirkwo” is selling a 2019 Indy 500 festival car with low mileage, offering fans a chance to score a rare, final-year C7.

Indy 500 Corvette Festival Car Introduction

When the OP posted this 2019 Corvette Stingray convertible for sale, he provided the following information.

Up for sale is a low mileage 2019 indy 500 pacecar (parade vehicle). As seen from pictures, it is a 2LT convertible in Long Beach Red and black interior. Car is number 35/50. Window sticker and pictures of Indy 500 material attached. Window sticker is signed by who drove the car but I have been unable to recognize it. I’m selling since I do not drive it as much as I wanted. I work 50 miles from home so it is solely a weekend car and just haven’t had that many great weekends here. More pictures on my google drive. Also have pictures of rock chips.

Please feel free to ask questions/offers. Looking for $62000. KBB Has listed at 59k private sell.

The Good:
Clean low mileage car ~2100.
30% tints
Clear bra on entire front
First title holder/recently purchased 6.20.20, original Manufacture warranty extends from there.

The Bad:
Have a lien on the vehicle still
Bought at 1900 miles. Couple marks on hood prior to putting clear bra on. Have pictures of everything on google drive.

He also included all of the images shown here.

2019 Indy 500 Corvettes

The official pace car for the 2019 Indy 500 was a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. It was finished in Long Beach Red Metallic Tintcoat with silver stripes and silver wheels. There are also Indianapolis Motor Speedway logos and Indy 500 logos. The 2019 Indy 500 pace car was driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. to stsrt the race while Sarah Fisher handled caution laps.

The Indy 500 festival cars are typically less expensive versions of the pace car and 2019 followed that pattern. Rather than a Grand Sport, the festival cars were Stingray convertibles, but for the first time since 2007, the pace cars and festival cars looked very similar. The festival cars are the same Long Beach Red Metallic Tintcoat with silver stripes and silver wheels, but they have a different style wheel. Of course, the festival cars are also convertibles, which is essential for the parade of drivers.

While the OP didn’t know who signed the window sticker of his 2019 Corvette, another CorvetteForum member pointed out that one was Honda driver James Hinchcliffe. That leads us to believe that Hinchcliffe road in this car during the parade, while the other signature is likely that of a local official.

Chevrolet Pace Car History

The first Chevrolet Indy 500 pace car led the field back in 1948. That was a Fleetmaster Six convertible and since then, a Chevy product has served as the official pace car 30 times. The 2019 race marked the 16^th time that a Corvette was the Indy 500 pace car while being the sixth Corvette pace car in the past ten years. The Corvette has been the Indy 500 pace car the most times, followed by the Camaro. Dating back to 2003 when a Chevy SSR led the field, a Corvette or Camaro has been the pace car every year.

The C8 Corvette Stingray was the 2020 Indy 500 pace car. In some cases, the pace car and festival cars are the same model in different trim, but for 2020, GM likely didn’t want to allocate so many new Stingrays to the Indy 500. Instead, the Camaro SS convertible was the 2020 festival car. In fact, over the past decade, a Camaro has served as the festival car

The Corvette Stingray convertible was obviously the 2019 festival car, but in the past decade, most of the festival cars were Camaros. That makes this 2019 Corvette festival car even more unique.

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