jackfit
Well-known member
Hi, I have come up with a general route across the US for my 48 state trip to visit and research owners of corvettes for 30 or more years.
Many of you have already sent me locations. This route is the general direction that I will be heading and I will travel about 200 miles on either side to visit .
If you would like to be part of this project and share your story with me, let me know with a PM of your location, zip, phone etc.
In a few months I will have a more accurate route and will share it with you. I will also be visiting others who would like me to stop by to share my trip experiences, so let me know even if you have not owned your car for 3 or more decades.
I would also like to meet family members who may have inherited their car from a family member. I am also trying to stop at Corvette historical sites, clubs and and chapters.
The link below will take you to my map.
Look forward to meeting you
Trip route - Google Maps
Jack
Here is some background on trip:
Let me give you some background of how my trip and project came about.
When I was a junior in HS, a friend came to school with a 1957 fuel injected black corvette.
I was in smitten. I was not a racing or corvette hobbyist. I just loved the car and the speed and attention it got.
In 1969, I got my first job and bought a 1961 corvette.
It caught fire and in 1970 I bought a 1966 L79 roadster from a Navy pilot going to Nam. I am the second owner.
I used it as my daily car, and it 1974, I had finished work, I had some money in the bank and I was going to take a year off and drive across the country from the east coast to the west coast. Just living off the land, working when I had to. Just the car, my tent and a compass that pointed west.
Just as I was about to leave, "Life Got in the Way" .
So after 36 years , 250,000 miles, a couple of restorations, and 4 engine rebuilds, I am going to take that trip with the same car & tent.
As I was preparing my car for the trip, I became a member of several corvette forums. Except for the engine and paint, I was doing all the work on this final restoration and needed help. I got all the help I needed.
I started to meet many other long time owners online and I thought it would interesting to meet some of these people on my trip.
My project is not so much about the cars that they own, but the relationship between them and the car.
Many of us have gone though Marriage, birth, death, divorce, triumphant and tragedy, yet the car is still out in the garage.
I wondered what traits do we have in common?
So what started out as a personal journey, has grown into something else. My goal is document that relationship or "love story " if you will.
I hope to spend informal time with you and others like you. I will ask some questions, take pictures of cars, and have you do some tasks before I get to you. But the story is not about the car, what year, what option, but the story of how you still have the car and what it means to you.
Many have tried to get me to schedule my trip with certain events and parades, and I am sure I will make a few , but I will be most happy sitting by a backyard fire, having a nice talk others who make up the special few that we are.
I hope that answers some of your questions.
I hope to put my travels into possible articles and a book but the main part of my trip is to have fun, meet interesting people, see blue highway America.
Look forward to meeting you
Jack
Many of you have already sent me locations. This route is the general direction that I will be heading and I will travel about 200 miles on either side to visit .
If you would like to be part of this project and share your story with me, let me know with a PM of your location, zip, phone etc.
In a few months I will have a more accurate route and will share it with you. I will also be visiting others who would like me to stop by to share my trip experiences, so let me know even if you have not owned your car for 3 or more decades.
I would also like to meet family members who may have inherited their car from a family member. I am also trying to stop at Corvette historical sites, clubs and and chapters.
The link below will take you to my map.
Look forward to meeting you
Trip route - Google Maps
Jack
Here is some background on trip:
Let me give you some background of how my trip and project came about.
When I was a junior in HS, a friend came to school with a 1957 fuel injected black corvette.
I was in smitten. I was not a racing or corvette hobbyist. I just loved the car and the speed and attention it got.
In 1969, I got my first job and bought a 1961 corvette.
It caught fire and in 1970 I bought a 1966 L79 roadster from a Navy pilot going to Nam. I am the second owner.
I used it as my daily car, and it 1974, I had finished work, I had some money in the bank and I was going to take a year off and drive across the country from the east coast to the west coast. Just living off the land, working when I had to. Just the car, my tent and a compass that pointed west.
Just as I was about to leave, "Life Got in the Way" .
So after 36 years , 250,000 miles, a couple of restorations, and 4 engine rebuilds, I am going to take that trip with the same car & tent.
As I was preparing my car for the trip, I became a member of several corvette forums. Except for the engine and paint, I was doing all the work on this final restoration and needed help. I got all the help I needed.
I started to meet many other long time owners online and I thought it would interesting to meet some of these people on my trip.
My project is not so much about the cars that they own, but the relationship between them and the car.
Many of us have gone though Marriage, birth, death, divorce, triumphant and tragedy, yet the car is still out in the garage.
I wondered what traits do we have in common?
So what started out as a personal journey, has grown into something else. My goal is document that relationship or "love story " if you will.
I hope to spend informal time with you and others like you. I will ask some questions, take pictures of cars, and have you do some tasks before I get to you. But the story is not about the car, what year, what option, but the story of how you still have the car and what it means to you.
Many have tried to get me to schedule my trip with certain events and parades, and I am sure I will make a few , but I will be most happy sitting by a backyard fire, having a nice talk others who make up the special few that we are.
I hope that answers some of your questions.
I hope to put my travels into possible articles and a book but the main part of my trip is to have fun, meet interesting people, see blue highway America.
Look forward to meeting you
Jack
Jane Ann
