ever owned,” Dobbs told us later, “this one is my favorite. It’s also the first one that I’ve been afraid of, in a respectful kind of way.”
     Dobbs, who many Corvette enthusiasts will recognize as the former owner of Dobbs Publishing Group, publisher of Corvette Fever, before Larry sold the company to Petersen (now emap) in 1998, purchased the 2000 Corvette at a Florida dealership but had it drop-shipped to Courtesy Motors in Decatur, IN, for immediate delivery to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering. LPE then installed its Stage 1 package, consisting of a pair of ball-bearing turbochargers, twin intercoolers, and all the manifolds, ducts, adapters, and hoses needed to spool-up 500 horsepower and 500 lb. ft. of torque. For seven months, Dobbs was king of the Lakeland, FL,