shoot for the magazine's upcoming issue. The only problem was that there were no Torch Red cars to be found! So with only a few days left, and hours spent searching dealer inventories from LA to San Francisco, we had to think fast! Corvette Mike Vietro then remembered that customers Dennis Moore and Jackie Saling, from Barstow, CA, had recently purchased a Torch Red 2000. A call went out to them, and they graciously agreed to lend us their Corvette for the shoot. The car was then delivered to our Anaheim showroom, detailed, and very gently driven to the photo location on Hollywood Boulevard, right across from Mann’s Chinese Theater.

Author Jeff Romm (left) and Corvette Mike Vietro attended the Corvette presentation at the Playboy Mansion, and of course took advantage of the opportunity to pose with Playboy’s 2000 Playmate of the Year, Jodi Paterson.