Lack of use can also contribute to the failure of an air conditioning system. The refrigerant acts as a lubricant as it circulates through the system, keeping the seals moist. If the AC system isn't being run, the refrigerant isn't circulating and seals can dry out and fail, allowing other damage to the system. Sad but true.

When I was in college, I bought my great aunt'* '77 Buick Skylark coupe, which was six years old at the time and had a whopping 13,000 miles on it. The air conditioner failed the first summer I had it and the cause was attributed to lack of use. I had to replace the entire system.

Also sad but true is that GM'* attitude toward repairing cars isn't a new thing. My dad was a district sales manager for Oldsmobile and the late '80s, a few years before he retired in 1991, they sent him to a weeklong seminar called "Winning at Arbitration". The whole premise of it was how to keep from having to pay to have a customer'* car repaired. Even back then, their corporate mindset saw it as preferable to beat the customer down in the short run instead of keeping their loyalty in the long run. It'* little wonder Oldsmobile went from selling 1.2 million units in 1986 to barely 300,000 in 1992.

Being less than 10 years old and with such low mileage, you could get a third-party warranty on your Corvette that would at least cover mechanical things like the air conditioning.