Some Stingray Customers Must Wait Six Months

General Motors Co. says some buyers of its redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray won't get their cars for half a year.

The first batch of the new sports car headed to showrooms in September. But some dealers have already sold their first-year allotment. A convertible Stingray will go on sale early next year.

Chevrolet General Manager Chris Perry says the GM division already has six months of orders for the seventh-generation 'Vette. The Stingray carries a base price of $52,000, but dealers say some customers have paid as much as $20,000 more to get one.

GM assembles the car at its factory in Bowling Green, Ky. The facility recently underwent a $131 million upgrade, in part to prepare it to produce the car's aluminum frame in-house. Last year Bowling Green built about 15,000 Corvettes.