The temptation to take a joyride in a shiny late-model Corvette apparently proved to be too much for a Florida trucker to turn down. Pearland, Texas police have charged 49-year-old Ronald Francis Kelly of Sebring, Fla., with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after a New Year’s Day escapade involving a Corvette and a woman. […]
By: Keith Cornett | January 6, 2014
Photo Credit: Tony Giberson/pnj.com For the second time this month, a Corvette driver has been shot and killed by law enforcement officers after leading them on a high-speed chase. On Dec. 13, 51-year-old Brian Newt Beaird of Oceanside, Calif., died after being shot after leading Los Angeles Police on a wild hour-long chase into the […]
By: Keith Cornett | December 30, 2013
Police have identified the driver of a C6 Corvette involved in an hour-long high-speed chase in Los Angeles Friday night as 51-year-old Brian Newt Beaird of Oceanside, Calif. Beaird was behind the wheel of the silver Corvette in Cudahy in east LA about 9:30 p.m. Friday when L.A. County sheriff’s deputies tried to stop him […]
By: Keith Cornett | December 16, 2013
Photo Credit: drivearabia.com Dubai loves to put on a big show. Just witness the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, that reaches an amazing 2,722 feet into the sky over there. But buildings aren’t the only things that Dubai loves to show off. The Dubai Civil Defense has just upgraded to the fluorescent yellow 2014 Corvette […]
By: Keith Cornett | November 19, 2013
A car wash owner in Albuquerque, New Mexico (who wishes to remain anonymous) witnessed a man shoot a cop, then steal the officer’s cruiser. But being a Corvette owner, and therefore having balls of solid steel, (as well as family members on the force) the car wash owner leaped into his modded 2003 C5 and […] More »
By: Yoav Gilad | November 1, 2013
The Corvette Stingray is one powerful car. Just ask “yuri_Stingray” who was among the first customers to receive their new C7. Unfortunately for Yuri, he picked the wrong road to test his new “headers and tune” modifications and now has to pay a hefty fine. Here is what Yuri posted on the Corvette Forum: Learn […]
By: Keith Cornett | October 28, 2013
Last week was definitely a bad time to be a building in Buffalo, N.Y. A customized silver C5 Corvette became the third vehicle in less than a week to crash into a structure in that city. Hamburg Police say the Corvette driver rammed into the apartment building on Lake Avenue, leaving chunks of concrete and […]
By: Keith Cornett | September 26, 2013
