Month: August 2009

The Solid Axle Corvette Club recently held their annual meeting in Ventura, California and one of highlights is the Sunday morning cruise. This year, a contingent of over 60 classic Corvettes drove along Highway 192 with a slight detour around the Santa Barbara Mission. Organizers described the Corvette cruise event as one of the largest gathering of solid axle Corvettes in the world.

Santa Barbara Pix was on scene and has published over 200 photos of the classic C1-era Corvettes driving past the Mission.

 

General Motors has announced that it will launch a new compact hatchback primarily for the South American market in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Saturday was a historic day for NASCAR at both the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series races.     The festivities began in Iowa at Rusty’s little track in a cornfield in what was being called an “Inaugural” race for the Nationwide series.  Well, actually, Indy Car has raced there a couple …

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Wow, now *that* was a race.  After a season of snoozers, Indy Car made up for it with a bona fide thriller that ended with Ryan Briscoe running wheel-to-wheel with Ed Carpenter in the closing laps and squeaking out a win by 81-thousandths of a second.   And that’s no …

The dust has settled. The swords have been laid down (for now). F1 is at peace, and should be intact at least until 2012. The FIA announced that Max Mosley signed the 2009 Concorde Agreement, much to the relief of the motor reacing world.

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Raleigh’s Wake County Sheriff Department just added another fleet car to its lineup… a Corvette Z06. Yes, you read it right! Deputies driving the Corvette Z06 will focus their attention to the Interstate 40, targeting vehicles suspected of possessing illegal drugs.

Consequently, the re-purposed deputy vehicle was seized from a cocaine dealer this past December. Now, the vehicle will help to put an end to drug trafficking on the Interstate. “We’re going to get a lot of drugs off the road,” said Sheriff Donnie Harrison.

Though the vehicle was seized free of charge, the department equipped the Z06 with nearly $9,000 in lights, siren, radar, radio and a laptop computer. According to Harrison, the vehicle “drives great” with only 11,792 miles on the odometer.

The Sheriff’s Department plans to utilize the Z06 as long as it proves to be useful. The department plans to then sell the vehicle after that point, and give proceeds to the Wake County Public School System.

What do you think of this new re-purposed Z06 patrol unit? Do you think the Raleigh Sheriff’s Department is being resourceful or just plain foolish?

[ The Times News ]

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