Tag: Stolen Corvettes

File photo courtesy of CorvetteImages.com There probably isn’t a much sicker feeling for a Corvette owner than the one a Hampton, Va., man suffered Monday night. Larry Phlegar had celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Corvette by buying a collector’s edition 2003 model, a yellow coupe that he had driven just 9,723 miles over the

File photo courtesy of Corvettes.nl An Indiana Corvette owner has learned a hard lesson about the dangers of deals on the Internet. Mike Stull decided to turn to Craigslist to find someone to replace the top on his yellow 1986 Corvette Indy 500 Pace Car convertible. He thought he had found the perfect person in

File photo courtesy of CorvetteImages.com Here’s another reason for automakers to keep manufacturing cars with manual transmissions: They can keep your pride and joy from being stolen. At least when the would-be carjackers don’t even know how to drive a six-speed! That’s what happened to Randolph Bean recently as he was sitting outside Orlando Regional

Who says people are afraid to get involved these days? Even though he didn’t have a horse in the race, Michael Legg of Haysville, Kansas didn’t think twice about chasing a suspected car thief Monday. Officers were in the midst of chasing a man suspected of stealing the silver C5 Corvette when he pulled into

After working this weekend to ensure that Corvettes at Carlisle, one of the largest Corvette shows in the country, went off successfully without a hitch, Carlisle Event’s co-owner Lance Miller is now responding to Dan Mathis Jr’s claims that his family is the owner of the #1 1960 Briggs Cunningham Corvette that ran at the

The saga surrounding the #1 Briggs Cunningham Corvette that raced at the 1960 24 Hours of Le Mans took another surprising turn over the weekend after its planned public unveiling Friday at Corvettes at Carlisle was abruptly canceled due to undisclosed security concerns. We have now learned that a Florida resident is claiming that the