Month: December 2009

Keith Martin and his panel of Corvette experts will return to Scottsdale this January to discuss the topics essential to understanding today’s collectible Corvette market. The seminar will be held Thursday, January 21 at the Barrett-Jackson Auction. [More]

After migrating across the U.S., this crazy winter storm is now leaving the northeast with a vengeance.

In northern New York alone, the storm has produced 60-mile-an-hour winds causing power outages in more than 5,000 homes and even extreme damage to vehicles and houses.

Corvette enthusiast, Michael Keegan came home to find his 1984 Corvette crushed by two enormous maple trees hit by high winds. Yikes!

Sadly, the blizzard-like conditions will continue to rear its ugly face. So, moral of the story, consider yourself lucky if you still have power and your Corvette is still in one piece.

Do you have any traumatic winter storm stories? Blog with us here.

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The Corvette Hall of Fame was created in 1998 to honor those people who were influential to Corvette’s success in their given field. Today, the Museum has announced the three Corvette elite who will be inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame in 2010. [More]

The rap on General Motors Corp. is that the same people have been in control for too long — but now that’s changing, quite radically.

For those of us who were wondering what became of the #002 Grand Sport Corvette following its failure to sell at RM’s Arizona auction earlier this year, we learned today the former racer has found a new home at one of the premiere automotive racing museums in the country, the Simeone Foundation Museum in Philadelphia. [More]

Michael P. Keegan returned to his Plank Road home in the town of Watertown on Wednesday to find his 1984 Corvette crumpled under two toppled maple trees. No one was injured or home at the time. The storm left 5,000 National Grid customers without power.

Source:
Watertown Daily Times

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GM’s vice president of Sales, Service and Marketing, Susan Docherty, made the announcement late today, with Dewar being replaced by Jim Campbell, the General’s former Fleet and Commercial Operations manager, effective immediately.

Did Chevy ever really seriously consider developing a turbine-powered Corvette? The short answer is “No!”. They may have talked about it over lunch, but Chevy never got into the turbine craze of the late sixties. But just because Chevy was never on-board doesn’t mean others haven’t looked to build their own turbine powered Corvette. [More]

Mobil 1 synthetic motor oil has been factory filled in Corvettes since 1992 and when the Corvettes began racing in the American Le Mans Series, Mobil 1 has been there from the beginning as well. Check out these three videos featuring the drivers and crew of Team Corvette talking about sports car racing and Mobil 1. [More]