Corvette 50th - more pics
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Corvette 50th - more pics
Click the link below to check out my pics of the 50th, from both Nashville and Bowling Green (and a brief side trip to Memphis). As you'd expect, saw some fabulous cars. The highlights in the pics:
- the blue 2004's
- more '53s than I've ever seen
- a hideous red modified C3
- lots of gorgeous C1's, 2's and 3's
- the June 27th parade of all 50 model years (the passenger in the white '65 is Charlie Pride)
- the NCM in Bowling Green
- a C5 that someone had modified to look like a '53 - very strange
- me in Memphis, after I bought a drink for the Blues Brothers' drummer, who was playing in a bar on Beale St.
- a C2 in the Graceland parking lot with a cool front lic plate
- Graceland and Elvis's grave
An excellent trip. I'd recommend it to anyone who's never been down there, even without a Corvette convention!
Link to my Nashville and Bowling Green pics
[Modified by mg62, 1:12 PM 7/2/2003]
- the blue 2004's
- more '53s than I've ever seen
- a hideous red modified C3
- lots of gorgeous C1's, 2's and 3's
- the June 27th parade of all 50 model years (the passenger in the white '65 is Charlie Pride)
- the NCM in Bowling Green
- a C5 that someone had modified to look like a '53 - very strange
- me in Memphis, after I bought a drink for the Blues Brothers' drummer, who was playing in a bar on Beale St.
- a C2 in the Graceland parking lot with a cool front lic plate
- Graceland and Elvis's grave
An excellent trip. I'd recommend it to anyone who's never been down there, even without a Corvette convention!
Link to my Nashville and Bowling Green pics
[Modified by mg62, 1:12 PM 7/2/2003]
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From: Richmond Hill Ontario
Re: Corvette 50th - more pics (mg62)
We enjoyed the Western NY caravan with over 450 Vettes together with Mike and Sue-Anne (75 Rag). It was great to get together for some drinks and dinner at Mulligan’ in Nashville After the concert of ZZ Top in the Coliseum, we stayed at the ******* Opryland hotel with another zillion Vettes. The Bowling Green NCM and 3 hr cruise in and around the hills North of BG were another experience. We traveled the Kentucky Blue Grass parkway both directions, stopped in Dayton, OH visted the Wright Patterson A/F base and museum and Woodlands cemetery (the Wright bros.). My favorite Vette is the 2004 deep-blue Lemans coupe with Oyster-colored interior. I'll try to post some pics later.
Drifting
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Re: Corvette 50th - more pics (mg62)
Ha! Let's not get hung up on the ugly one! There are plenty of beautiful Vettes in those pics!
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Re: Corvette 50th - more pics (77Dream)
Thanks for the comments guys.
One of the things I was surprised at was that there wasn't more of a CorvetteForum.com presence at Nashville and BG. I suppose there were a lot of us there who, like me, didn't have a Forum t-shirt to wear!
("Yeah, I'll meet you at the Coliseum. I'll be the one wearing a Corvette hat.")
By coincidence I bumped into Juliet waiting for the shuttle at the hotel. Other than that, the only Forum members I saw were Toronto guys, 75Rag and Ghostrider.
Overall, it was a great time. The ZZ Top show was a bit of a drag, but apart from that it was a good event. Excellent cars, nice weather. Seeing the museum in BG was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and it was pretty impressive. I was shocked to see that they didn't have 1974 represented in the line of C3's in the museum, but then remembered that they have Duntov's personal '74 near the entrance!
One of the things I was surprised at was that there wasn't more of a CorvetteForum.com presence at Nashville and BG. I suppose there were a lot of us there who, like me, didn't have a Forum t-shirt to wear!
("Yeah, I'll meet you at the Coliseum. I'll be the one wearing a Corvette hat.")
By coincidence I bumped into Juliet waiting for the shuttle at the hotel. Other than that, the only Forum members I saw were Toronto guys, 75Rag and Ghostrider.
Overall, it was a great time. The ZZ Top show was a bit of a drag, but apart from that it was a good event. Excellent cars, nice weather. Seeing the museum in BG was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and it was pretty impressive. I was shocked to see that they didn't have 1974 represented in the line of C3's in the museum, but then remembered that they have Duntov's personal '74 near the entrance!
