C6Performance Journal

The 2010 model year proved to be a very successful and exciting year for the segment-leading Chevrolet Camaro.

Ever find a Corvette in a barn?  Many Corvette enthusiasts dream of finding a missing Corvette hidden away in some remote garage or barn.  Perhaps well maintained, but forgotten.  Miraculously preserved because the humidity level was perfect.  Maybe #001 is still out there!

My first barn-find was not a Corvette, but a Model A Ford in Palisades Park, New Jersey.  Wish I had grabbed it for that $300, but that was a serious amount of cash for a high school student in the sixties.  I guess I’m still hoping to find the perfect car at the perfect price.

In response to barn-find-itis in so many of us, and recognizing that many of us are Corvette buffs, Tom Cotter has written, and Motorbooks has published, a new book: The Corvette in the Barn.  If this theme interests you, you must get this book!

My favorite account is titled "The Hog Farmer’s Fuel Injected Mouse Den" in chapter six.  I have seen this car myself at Bloomington Gold (and blogged about it shortly thereafter).  It is Bill Connell’s car (that is, it belongs to the other Bill Connell).

Other chapters included among the other thirty eight stories are these specifically about Corvettes:

The Corvette Sleuth
The Father & Son Hunting Team
Coming to Grips with a Slippery Question
Bad Luck Blues

You can purchase your own copy of The Corvette in the Barn wherever great books are sold.  It can also be found at www.Amazon.com and www.QBookshop.com.  Special thanks to Motorbooks for the opportunity to review this outstanding volume, authored by Tom Cotter.  The foreward is written by Corvette Market publisher Keith Martin.

In the tenth episode of Corvette Racing’s Track to Street series, the team talks about the importance of team work and continuity to their overall success. For the first time in several years, the team altered its driving line up in an effort to gain an advantage in the highly competitive GT2 class. […]

The hopeless romantic in me just loved this feature. Austin Dillman suprises his race-loving girlfriend Sheri with a marriage proposal “on the bricks” of the Indy 500 the day before the big race. With help from Hare Chevrolet, GM, the Indy 500 and driver Tony Kanaan, Austin’s proposal was well received. […]

According to British Insurance firm Sheilas’ Wheels, the average British male travels 276 miles per year because he is too stubborn to stop to ask for directions!

That’s right fellas. This means you’re spending £2,000 ($3,100) worth on just gas simply because you don’t want to be the one in question.

Not sure what that correlates to here in the United States, but in the UK alone, 25% of men would rather wander for up to 30 minutes before stopping to ask someone for directions. And, 10% would never bother to ask at all. Best yet – 41% of men admitted to telling their passengers that they knew where they were going when truly they didn’t!

Now, women are a different story. When polled, 75% of British women admit to having no hesitation when it comes time to asking for help.  We wonder what this poll would look like if conducted within the U.S….  Does the trend hold true to Corvette owners?  (Especially those without navigation built in!)

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One of the most exotic cars at the Mulligan’s car show in Lakeway last Sunday was John Scannell’s Plymouth Superbird.

In the spirit of the old and new cutaway Corvettes that GM displayed at car shows around the country comes the C4 Cutaway Corvette built by Corvette Central. The drivable Corvette was unveiled appropriately enough at Corvettes at Carlisle. A majority of the outer and inner trim panels have been removed […]

In the spirit of the old and new cutaway Corvettes that GM displayed at car shows around the country comes the C4 Cutaway Corvette built by Corvette Central. The drivable Corvette was unveiled appropriately enough at Corvettes at Carlisle. A majority of the outer and inner trim panels have been removed […]

No longer will customers be in the dark about the status of their new Corvette order. GM has introduced a new “Track Your Order” feature to allow customers to view the relative status of their Corvette or any other Chevrolet order. In addition to the event status, a representation of the customer’s […]

No longer will customers be in the dark about the status of their new Corvette order. GM has introduced a new “Track Your Order” feature to allow customers to view the relative status of their Corvette or any other Chevrolet order. In addition to the event status, a representation of the customer’s […]