Archive for 'Plant/NCM'

NCM-HPDE @ RA

April 15th, 2008 – 7:33 pm

Are there enough acronyms in the title for you? It stands for: National Corvette Museum High Performance Driving Event at Road America. The HPDE is quickly becoming a popular way to get instruction and practice driving your Corvette on a track. Participants will be placed in 1 of 5 groups: Beginners, for [...]

10th Anniversary of the C5

January 6th, 2007 – 9:13 am

Today’s Bowling Green Daily News has an article mentioning the C5 unveiling 10 years ago this weekend. It features an interview with Wendell Strode, NCM Executive Director. At the time of the unveiling, the Museum was only 2 days from closing.
It also mentions the unveiling as a sattelite event, but it was actually [...]

Wendell Strode celebrates 10 years with NCM

December 21st, 2006 – 12:11 pm

Wendell strode celebrated 10 years as Executive Director of the National Corvette Museum on December 20. I met Mr. Strode shortly after he took the position, when my Dad and I drove to the Museum for the first public unveiling of the C5 in January 1997. From what I remember, this event was [...]

Corvette Workers Become Santa’s Elves

December 12th, 2006 – 6:47 am
Tagged as: Plant/NCM

Source: WBKO Bowling Green
For eleven months they make what they call the best sports car in the world but this month the Corvette employees are Santa’s helpers.
For 25 years they’ve been buying gifts for kids and putting food baskets together for adults, averaging $25,000 a year in donations to the Angel Tree Program.
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