This is the new
Corvettes Conquer Cancer Warhorse!

American Cancer Society
Corvette Raffle...  NOT!

Special Notice:

For the first time since Sandy started this major fundraiser for the American Cancer Society in 1989,
there will be no Corvette Raffle!

The State of Maine has ruled that since the American Cancer Society is not incorporated in Maine, the license for the Raffle cannot be granted. This decision has been appealed, and I talked with the the decision makers in a visit to the licensing agency, but the State is very clear on their decision. It actually looks like they had issued the licenses in error for several years! Hopefully it can resume some time in the future, possible from another location.

This is a very unfortunate development: Sandy's Corvette Raffle netted the American Cancer Society in excess of $1.5 Million since its 1989 inauguration!

Click here for pictures and comments from our
FANTASTIC August 2002 trip to California:
8 events in 10 days on the Monterey Peninsula;
a total of 10,000 miles and 35 states in 23 days on the road.

Background

Sandy died at age 53 on March 6, 2000, after living with cancer for half of her life. Between treatments, she spent most of her last two years traveling the country, speaking at Corvette events, raising money for the American Cancer Society.

Late in 1997, at age 51, Sandy was undergoing rigorous chemotherapy for a recurrence of breast cancer that had spread to her lymph system. During the infusions, she would think happy thoughts.  These thoughts always included traveling with her husband, Ben, in her beloved 1963 Corvette convertible. The months of treatments dragged on. During each session her mind would wander farther, to distant Corvette shows, where she would speak about cancer - about detection and prevention and research - and she would raise money for the American Cancer Society. 

The images became more vivid, and, without realizing it, she wasn't daydreaming any longer, she was planning!

She told Ben, "I know this recurrence is NOT a good thing. As soon as I'm done with this course of treatment, and while I'm still able, I want to sell the '63, get a C5 [the newest model], and go on a tour of the country, hitting all the major Corvette shows, speaking whenever I have the opportunity, distributing cancer information and raising money for the American Cancer Society. Whatever it takes, I'm going to find a way!"

Sandy became focused on making the Corvettes Conquer Cancer Tour a reality! Looking back on it later, she would laugh and say that the idea was "drug induced"!

Corvettes Conquer Cancer
was born.

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In a nutshell, Sandy and Ben spent the last two years of Sandy's life covering 50,000 miles, living out her "drug induced" dream:
the Corvettes Conquer Cancer Tour.

In her memory, Ben has continued with the Tour to the extent that earning a living will permit. He drove an additional 21,000 miles in 2000 and 23,000 in 2001. An expanded schedule for 2002, which included 8 events in 10 days on the Monterey Peninsula in California, had him traveling 30,000 miles! 2003 saw 22,000; 2004 another 22,000; 2005 a low of 17,000. After 8 years, the trusty '97 Corvette had completed over 195,000 miles in this effort as the 2006 season started. It was retired (temporarily) to the National Corvette Museum on April 22, 2006 after 201,370 miles. Since then he had covered another 90,000 miles in the 2006 (see "Warhorse" above) by the end of the 2009 season.

        

 

Corvettes Conquer Cancer Thanks Our Sponsors For Making This Mission Possible:

Thanks to their support to cover our expenses, every penny that we collect in our travels to Corvette events around the country goes directly to the American Cancer Society office that serves the area where the event was held.

 

   

 

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