Corvette Magazine

pieces than some Chevy service departments.
     I know after the ebay auction I might not have my cars any more. Or the Snakeskinner body panels. Or my stash of ZR-1 engines and suspension parts. Or the stacks of wheels and tires and springs and other goodies we saved as we turned production Corvettes into racecars. Or the Mobil 1 transporter. Or what I will always consider the most beautiful Corvette show rig on the road.
     I keep telling myself I’m just cleaning out a race shop. But I know I’m really ripping up a history book. I’m getting rid of the artifacts of a gorilla fighter era that hardly anybody outside Dave McClellan's Corvette engineering group at GM can begin to understand.
     I was one of the gorillas. From the moment in 1983 when Dick Guldstrand introduced Jim Cook and me to McLellan until may 5, 1997, when I watched my No. 92 ZR-1 race car installed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History — where it’s still on display today -- I lived and breathed Corvette.
     I had good company: Kim Baker, John Powell, Doug Rippie, even John Greenwood.