Corvettes and more Corvettes...

Wow, this has got to be the most spectacular day I have ever seen in Kentucky. It is clear blue sky, like the perfect color blue that you would paint if you could paint the perfect color blue. The breeze blowing for the first time since the beginning of June lifting the american flag on the pole in front of the hotel, proudly raised to full mast after yesterday.

I'm ready to hit the highway and drive to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky.  The museum is only about 20 miles south of the hotel where I'm staying and right off interstate 65.  The building itself is very cool with it's curved footprint, metal facing, and concial yellow tower. The parking lot has corvette only parking spaces and a "no burnout" sign.

The interior lobby has a parade of new corvettes parked on a stain concrete street in various color schemes The exhibition area of the museum focuses on several vignettes that show the character of the various periods of corvette history. Each are very well done and filled with the appropriate aged cars in mint condition with the surrounding artifacts really giving you the sense of how it was then. Cutaways of motors, cars, and chassis let you see into the guts of car design and mechanics. The route of exhibits serpentined through the building toward the conical portion of the structure that housed about 30 unique cars, Indy 500 pace cars, special editions, and prototypes. way cool.. This area lead to another display area of private custom corvettes of every style and taste. I was very interested in the process of design and creation of the corvette. You really get a great education about car design and production with this tour of the corvette museum. Afterwards, I was ready to purchase a 2011 vette but decided that a raffle ticket was closer to my price range. Wish me luck since the raffle is two days after my birthdate.