There
was solid snow under the hood."
Thats how Doug got his nickname, Snowman, which became
his handle on the Corvette Forum. His C5 was also the color of snow, which has
become his trademark. Snowman later bought a numbers-matching, white 67
convertible and a white 90 Corvette set up for autocrossing. Even his
Tahoe is white.
Doug had kept his previous five Corvettes mostly stock. Snowman,
meanwhile, has become a monster of modification. The new set of exhausts and
wheels/tires were about to look extremely tame.
Next came a head and cam package, followed by a 383 stroker,
then a steel-block 427 and finally an aluminum-block 427 built by Agostino Racing
Engines. Along the way, Snowman installed a Halon fire system, a pair of 5-point