by Rick Tavel Special to Corvette Forum ? 6-26-2013 All rights reserved, do not duplicate without permission. Like many Corvette ?true believers? I watched the 24 Hours of Le Mans with hopeful anticipation that the Corvette team would somehow be able to add victory number eight to their impressive twenty first century record of class […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 26, 2013
by Rick Tavel Special to Corvette Forum ? 6-25-2013 All rights reserved It happened just the other day?I was browsing one of my favorite automobile image sites,Omnibus of Speed (http://omnibusofspeed.tumblr.com/) and there it was, something I had not seen in over fifty years, a picture of the cover of the first book I ever read […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 25, 2013
by Rick Tavel Special to Corvette Forum ? 6-19-2013 All rights reserved Simple but effective. This ad summed up what most new C3 Corvette owners had, a superiority complex. With the introduction of the new generation in 1968 several new features and options were offered to the enthusiastic Corvette buyer. And with the $4320 convertible […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 19, 2013
by Rick Tavel Special to Corvette Forum ? 6-12-2013 All rights reserved Most Corvette enthusiasts were in love in 1968 and with the all new third generation Corvette, which wore a completely new body style based on Larry Shinoda’s Mako Shark II concept car. One of the new design features which created considerable excitement was […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 12, 2013
by Rick Tavel special to Corvette Forum ? 6-5-2013 All Rights Reserved Do Not Duplicate Without Permission The beautiful and potent second generation Corvette may have been exciting and revered but even though sales continued to grow, GM pulled the plug and the C2 became the shortest lived of any of the six generations. Following […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 5, 2013
by Rick Tavel Special to Corvette Forum ? 6-3-2013 All rights reserved If you are like most other enthusiasts you have owned or still own that one special car that you enjoy above all others, a car with which you have developed a special relationship. And often times that car is neither the best performer, […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | June 3, 2013
Corvette History Through Ads #11 The C6’s Banned Commercial By Rick Tavel? 2013 Before getting into third generation Corvette advertising, as we are awash in C7 media, I’d like to take a moment and revisit a TV commercial from the first year of the beloved C6. The ad was one of several produced to introduce […] More »
By: Rick Tavel | May 29, 2013
