head
and cam package. They said to drop the car off in the fall, they would play
with all winter to see what kind of power they could get, and then I’d
get the car back in the spring. Of course, when you live in Minnesota, your
car sits all winter long anyway, so it worked out good for me and good for them."
Ron had a very early Z06, built on the third day of production,
and the first of its RPO kind sold in Minnesota, home of Doug
Rippie Motorsports. Ron already had autocrossing plans for his new C5
- notice "Corvette Racing" on the rear pillars — so the offer
from Rippie fit right in.
But don’t get the idea this Z06 is strictly race. The
mileage has passed 19,000 with Ron and wife Susan driving the car all over the
place, like down to the National Corvette Museum for their Labor Day show.
