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National Corvette Museum 12th Anniversary Celebration & Hall of
Fame This event is not a big fundraiser for us like
the April C5/C6 Bash is. Our primary mission here is to pay tribute to the Tuesday, August 29 After a great Monday afternoon visit with my folks in
the home where I grew up in Philadelphia Not exactly a direct route you say? No, more
like a big check-mark! The method behind this Guess why these are called the Smoky Mountains! Too busy (for once) with the INTENSE driving to
take pics, these are the only ones I got while driving the Dragon. Nearly 2 years later, I discovered these photos
on http://www.killboy.com!
Check it out, it's a great service! The TOD website has links to some great amateur videos that
really give you an idea how wild a ride this is. Back to reality... or are we? Kudzu vines
create surreal images on trees along I-40 between Knoxville and Nashville. Arriving at the Microtel in Bowling Green at
8:10pm Eastern time after 1024 miles, I was still so pumped
After a leisurely start and washing the Vette
(for some reason there was a lot more brake dust Then I went across the street to the Corvette
Plant to see if anybody was free to talk, and met briefly with Lynn Herron, Sick joke? The Exxon sign remains with the gas
prices from a couple years ago when the station was torn down! Ah, the good old
days...
On the job in the Museum, I could admire the
silver Z06 across from me awaiting its lucky I had the pleasure of meeting Corvetter Sondra
Wright from the American Cancer Society's headquarters One of my missions while at this event was to
determine the history of the pair of ZR-1 cam covers that were given to me at
the Maine 2006 event. As luck would have it, Graham
Behan happened to be at the Museum for the Hall of Fame induction of John
Lingenfelter. Graham was instrumental in the Lotus team in England that
developed the ZR-1 engine. After the development was completed and the car was
in production, he went to work for Lingenfelter in the US. He immediately
recognized that these covers were from the very first design that was produced
in the US. All the UK versions were sand-cast; these were die-cast. These lack
the internal breather passages that were found to be necessary and were
incorporated in the production version. He autographed each cover (photo below) with the note
"Early Phase III cam cover". They are also signed by C4 guru Gordon
Killebrew and retired Chief Engineers, Dave McLellan and Dave Hill.
Hall-of-Famer John Cafaro introduced retired
Chief Engineer Dave Hill. Graham Behan was featured in the video of the
late John Lingenfelter's accomplishments. Hall-of-Famer Randy Whitine Then it was National Corvette Restorers Society
co-founder Gary Mortimer's turn. He was introduced After the induction ceremony, I paid a quick
visit to Jake Delaney's "Lot Lizards". Then I joined the Mortimer
family and friends for the traditional ice cream.
All three living Corvette Chief Engineers
stopped by our table after a formal portrait shoot. Dave McLellan added his
autograph to the ZR-1 My usual parking space for the event.
Lifetime Members' Dinner at Director Wendell
Strode's home.
That was my space for the last 4 days, clear
once again. Last but not least, a big crowd gathered in the
Rotunda as the winning ticket for the 2007 Corvette was drawn. This must be Lexington! The Hagerstown MD Microtel has been a
dependable overnight stop for this trip. Monday, September 4 Home at last! Click to go directly to next event!
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