Not so with Mike Yagers collection. As president and founder of Mid
America Designs, the giant Corvette mail-order company, Mike has been collecting
Corvettes for many years. A few years ago, he created a museum for his possessions
and called it MY Garage. But this museum, located at the south end of the Mid
America headquarters in Effingham, Illinois, is open to the public, for free,
six days a week.
Through the lobby of MY Garage and into the museum, youre
greeted by a beautiful Pennant Blue 1954 Corvette in front of an old Standard
Oil station display. To the left is a room called "Mikes Room," filled
with historic race cars. Since the cars on display change often, what we saw
may be different from what is there now, but generally there are one or two
Corvette Challenge racers from the 1988-89 series. Behind the cars,