Okay, many of you know I'm a Corvette fan... But I love all performance cars!
We had our annual Corvettes at Carlisle event this past weekend held in Carlisle, PA. I thought it would be fun to share two items with my GT buddies from this past weekend.
1) We had 49 Chevrolet Corvette team members that work on the car & a few Camaro team members over to our home to see our collection of cars as a thank you for attending our event. When you open the garage doors at our home the first thing you see is a Silver Matech Ford GT with the #60 Matech sitting behind it, then a C5R Corvette driven by the two Earnhardts in the early 2000's - see the picture below. Needless to say between the two Matech's, a 289 Cobra and my Tungsten GT I had plenty of questions about "why Fords?!" as if I'm a trader - I quickly took them through the lineage of how the GT40's came about all the way up to the new Ford GT. I let them know I purchase through my passion / desire to own a car and the story about Ferrari & Ford is a significant automotive staple that will forever be engraved into the history books. We all know and cherish the story behind the GT40's but we also love the new latest and greatest GT's too... why?! Because of the lineage & heritage! By the end of the evening many of the members were taking their pictures in the Matech car along with praising the build quality & etc. It was an evening I'll never forget... And I wanted to take a moment to share it with all of you.
2) As many of you know the story behind Greg and I purchasing the Matech cars (story here). I fell in love with the Matech cars at first sight in person... simply stunning looks, incredible build quality and of course the sound, oh that sweet sound! I wanted to own the car upon seeing it for the first time at Le Mans, I stayed after it and now I'm fortunate to own it... I'm thrilled to be the current caretaker!
But the real reason I fell in love with it is because I was at Le Mans in 2010 taking our Le Mans class winner 1960 Cunningham Corvette #3 back to Le Mans for its 50th Anniversary. There was a documentary made about the effort called "The Quest" and this is the 5th anniversary since the movie premiered. I asked the producer, Michael Brown, to make a short video of never seen before footage to showcase during a benefit dinner to honor my father Chip Miller (Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation). To say he knocked it out of the park is an understatement... we had well over 200 people at the benefit dinner and this video is what they watched. I wanted to take a moment and share it with my GT family (it's about 15 minutes):
[video=youtube;KDaCovnNt7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaCovnNt7E[/video]
Life IS good,
Lance
We had our annual Corvettes at Carlisle event this past weekend held in Carlisle, PA. I thought it would be fun to share two items with my GT buddies from this past weekend.
1) We had 49 Chevrolet Corvette team members that work on the car & a few Camaro team members over to our home to see our collection of cars as a thank you for attending our event. When you open the garage doors at our home the first thing you see is a Silver Matech Ford GT with the #60 Matech sitting behind it, then a C5R Corvette driven by the two Earnhardts in the early 2000's - see the picture below. Needless to say between the two Matech's, a 289 Cobra and my Tungsten GT I had plenty of questions about "why Fords?!" as if I'm a trader - I quickly took them through the lineage of how the GT40's came about all the way up to the new Ford GT. I let them know I purchase through my passion / desire to own a car and the story about Ferrari & Ford is a significant automotive staple that will forever be engraved into the history books. We all know and cherish the story behind the GT40's but we also love the new latest and greatest GT's too... why?! Because of the lineage & heritage! By the end of the evening many of the members were taking their pictures in the Matech car along with praising the build quality & etc. It was an evening I'll never forget... And I wanted to take a moment to share it with all of you.
2) As many of you know the story behind Greg and I purchasing the Matech cars (story here). I fell in love with the Matech cars at first sight in person... simply stunning looks, incredible build quality and of course the sound, oh that sweet sound! I wanted to own the car upon seeing it for the first time at Le Mans, I stayed after it and now I'm fortunate to own it... I'm thrilled to be the current caretaker!
But the real reason I fell in love with it is because I was at Le Mans in 2010 taking our Le Mans class winner 1960 Cunningham Corvette #3 back to Le Mans for its 50th Anniversary. There was a documentary made about the effort called "The Quest" and this is the 5th anniversary since the movie premiered. I asked the producer, Michael Brown, to make a short video of never seen before footage to showcase during a benefit dinner to honor my father Chip Miller (Chip Miller Amyloidosis Foundation). To say he knocked it out of the park is an understatement... we had well over 200 people at the benefit dinner and this video is what they watched. I wanted to take a moment and share it with my GT family (it's about 15 minutes):
[video=youtube;KDaCovnNt7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaCovnNt7E[/video]
Life IS good,
Lance
