The 80s were a time of innovation and the auto industry was no exception. People were always dreaming about the endless possibilities that technology could bring. Top auto makers of the 80s exhausted their funds and minds to engineer some of the most advanced vehicles of their time. Many of them are now considered classics and have been popularized through TV and entertainment. Some of the greatest cars ever conceptualized came from this period, and they have become the objects of desire of thousands of wealthy collectors around the world. If you are on the hunt for the car of your dreams, here’s a guide to some of the most wanted.
One of the most iconic supercars of all time, the Ferrari Testarossa achieved fame and glory through the popular show Miami Vice. Usually outfitted in its signature red paint job, the car blazes the streets with its red-hot 4.9-liter 12-cylinder engine, pushing 390 horsepower! [...]
The 2012 NCRS National Convention will highlight the 1962 Corvette which will be 50 years old.
This year’s convention will feature NCRS Flight Judging®, Performance Verification®, Duntov Marque of Excellence® Judging, McLellan Marque of Excellence® Judging, Chevrolet Star/Bowtie Judging, American Heritage®, and special displays.
Your convention hosts have also planned a number of informative presentations/tech sessions on a variety of topics including Corvette documentation, vintage Corvette racing, Corvette restoration etc. Click on Schedule for tech session details. As always all tech sessions and presentations are free to members who have registered for the convention.
We hope to see you there!
I found this today and thought I would share it. I know it is not Corvette related, but still found it interesting how Mother Nature could not kill this very strong name, but rather a broken heart ended his life.
This is not really Corvette related, but rather a story about Mother Nature and Love.
From the national parks traveler:
Roy Sullivan (1912-1983) was a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park for 36 years beginning in 1940. On seven occasions between 1942 and 1977, six of them in the park, Ranger Sullivan was struck by lightning and lived to tell about it.
Variously referred to as “Dooms,” “Sparky,” or the “human lightning rod,” Sullivan earned his entry in Guiness World Records the hard way. Two of his ranger Stetsons, both with lightning-damaged crowns, are on display in Guiness World Exhibit Halls.
If you go to Wikipedia and enter Roy Sullivan, this is the tally you [...]
Illustrated Corvette Series No. 93 – 1992
Falconer V-12 Experimental Corvette “The Conan Corvette”
When the Dodge Viper debuted at the North American International Auto Show in January 1989, NO ONE knew what hit them. The Viper was new and fresh, yet it had a definite connection to the Shelby Cobra. Advanced orders were flooding in you know that designers were going back to the office saying, “DAMN!” The Corvette team was working on three fronts: improving the production Corvette, getting the LT-5 (ZR-1) ready for production, and honing the CERV III prototype as a possible C5 Corvette. But the economy wasn’t good and the reality of a CERV III-based car seemed dim at best Meanwhile, Chrysler was going into production with the V10-powered Viper. This posed a serious threat to the Corvette’s “America’s Only True Sports Car” status. Under the guise of a “chassis development” program, the Corvette team came up with the idea [...]
Each 1953 Corvette required considerable
hand labor on the makeshift Flint,
Michigan, assembly line, which was
housed in the same factory that turned out
Chevy passenger cars. Due to variances
in the supplied fiberglass components,
body fit-and-finish were inconsistent,
especially during the first
model year.
Actually, much of the 1953 model-year’s run of 300 cars would be hand-built, as more-efficient production processes for assembling the vehicle’s fiberglass body were still being perfected. [...]
