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West Burke, VT - USA

Vette(s):
SOLD - "The Toy" - '70 Convertible
SOLD - "The Beast" - '90 ZR-1 (#682)
SOLD - "Betty" - '28 Ford Model A Tudor
Still have - "BLKBRRD" - '78 Pontiac Trans Am


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National Corvette Museum eNews
  JULY 11, 2013
IN THIS ISSUE:
  • GM Releases 2013 Corvette Stats
  • Corvette Homecoming Two Weeks Away
  • ZL1 Camaro Raffle Winner Drawn
  • Labor Day Registration Open
  • Corvette Store Feature
  • One Acre Club Features
GM Releases 2013 Corvette Stats

General Motors has released the statistics on the Model Year 2013 Corvette. Of the 13,466 produced, the most popular color was Arctic White at 21.8%... however, if you add together Torch Red at 14.1% and Crystal Red Metallic at 9.4% "red" wins with 23.5%.

The 60th Anniversary Package was popular, netting 15.3%, and the new 427 Convertible model was selected for 19% of the cars. Only 23 cars had the Engine Build Experience while 265 buyers selected the R8C Delivery option.

Check out the complete list of statistics online here.

Corvette Homecoming Two Weeks Away

In just a few weeks Bowling Green will welcome Corvette fans for the annual Corvette Homecoming event July 25-27. While not a Museum sponsored event, we're excited to offer extended hours to the group on Friday evening, and our own Roc Linkov will be leading a NCM Motorsports Park seminar on Saturday at 10am.

Check out their complete agenda online here.

2013 Camaro Raffle Winner Drawn

Congrats to Regina Ward of Neosho, MO! She had lucky ticket #501 in today's drawing for a 2013 ZL1 Camaro Convertible. We sold 1329 of the 1994 available tickets.

Your next chance to win a Corvette is Thursday, July 25 when we draw for a 2013 Night Race Blue 427 Convertible. The car is a one-of-a-kind GM Design car with blue top and black stripe. It also bears VIN 5. Tickets are $150 and the raffle is limited to 1,500 tickets.

Learn more about our raffles, including exclusions and restrictions and purchase tickets online at www.corvettemuseum.org/raffle or call 800-538-3883 during normal business hours.

Labor Day Registration Open

Do you have plans this upcoming Labor Day weekend? If not, why not spend them with us? Our annual Anniversary Celebration and Corvette Hall of Fame induction offers three days of activities August 29-31 including road tours, the NCM open membership meeting, Lifetime/VIP dinner, Hall of Fame banquet, seminars, auctions and more.

The event is free for Lifetime members, $15 for members and $25 for non-members. Early registrants receive a hardcard collectible badge, lanyard, event pin and dash plaque.

View the complete agenda and register online here.

Corvette Store Featured Item

2014 Corvette Stingray Power Wheels. Car enthusiasts of all ages can soon rev up for a child-sized version of America’s iconic sports car with the Power Wheels Corvette Stingray from Fisher-Price. The battery-powered ride-on is modeled after the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2013. Just like Chevrolet’s 2014 Corvette Stingray, the Power Wheels Corvette will feature the all-new design with the same cool, realistic body styling and detailing like sporty “chrome” wheels. It’s also the fastest Power Wheels in the product line - traveling 6 mph forward and 3 mph in reverse - to make the driving sensation even more exciting for preschoolers, while maintaining child-appropriate speeds. The 2014 Corvette Stingray is the first Power Wheels Corvette in 25 years. The Power Wheels Corvette is appropriate for children ages 3+.

Order now for September delivery.

$274.95 plus special shipping charge of $175 for oversize item.

One Acre Club Features

Bruce and Marilyn Phipps bought their first Corvette in ’98, a convertible!  The dealer didn’t want to sell it, but fortunately for the Phipps’, he did. Bruce says this was “the beginning of a great relationship with the car and with the museum”.  He had known about the NCM before buying the Vette and became a Lifetime Member of the Museum with his wife the following year.

They have participated in many Museum events such as the 50th Anniversary Caravan and say owning a Corvette is all about the people: people that have been there for many milestones in the Phipps’ life. On a trip to Maine for the C5 Registry is when Bruce proposed to Marilyn, and that’s not the end of their Corvette love story.  Bruce and Marilyn got married at the 2001 Rolex 24 at Daytona, the last year Corvettes were raced there. Bruce says “The car has enriched our life immensely,” and for that reason, he and Marilyn knew they wanted to join the One Acre Club.  They already have plans to be at the Museum’s 20th Anniversary Celebration and are very excited to be part of the Motorsports Park.


George and Beverly Hoover were fans of the Corvette before they could drive. George still remembers the first Stingray he ever saw, a silver split-window. In 1986 George went to the Indy 500 and saw Chuck Yeager driving the Pace Car.  It was there he decided he was going to have one someday. But the only one he had over the next ten years was a 1/24" die-cast model. Then in 1996 George bought a 1995 Bright Aqua Metallic convertible left-over as a 50th birthday present.

Beverly booked them on an NCM trip in 2000.  Naturally they became members.  It was on that trip that they met a member of a club near their home, Skyline Drive Corvettes, from Reading PA. It wasn't long before they joined them, too. In 2007 at the suggestion of their NCM Ambassador, Jack Delong, they became Lifetime Members. They love traveling and have averaged over 10,000 miles per year, making the 800 mile drive to Bowling Green, going on Museum in Motion trips, and caravanning with Skyline Drive.

Both Beverly and George are race fans.  They frequently attend events featuring Stock Cars, Open Wheel and of course Corvettes. Supporting the NCM and performance driving by purchasing an Acre just seemed to be the right thing to do.


Only 28 acres remain in our "One Acre Club" program. Learn more about how you can be a member of this group here.

 

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EBAY AUCTION BENEFITTING NCM

Autographed "C7" Stingray Corvette Die Cast Model

A Maisto Special Edition 1:18 scale die cast model of a 2014 Black Corvette Stingray.

This is autographed by Harlan Charles, Tadge Juechter and John Fitzpatrick.

Auction ends Thursday, July 18. Bid online here.

NCM GETTIN' ONE CHILDREN'S T-SHIRT

$12.00

NEXT RAFFLE


2013 Night Race Blue 427 Convertible

Thursday, July 25 at 2pm CT

Tickets $150
Limited to 1,500 Tickets

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