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The NCM has locked in our Corvette events for the 2010 season! Below are the dates so mark your calendars. C5/C6 Bash - April 29-May 1 The Gathering - May 13 - 15 Forum Cruise-In - May 27 - 29 High Performance Driving Event at VIR - June 28 - 29 NCM Birthday Bash - September 2 - 4 Z06 Fest - September 16 - 18 Pace Car Reunion - September 23 - 25 Vets 'n Vettes - November 4 - 6 2010 Event Schedule Announced New Corvette Plant Manager Arrives Bowling Green is proud to welcome Bob Parcell as the new plant manager of the General Motors Bowling Green Assembly Plant. Parcell began work for GM in 1979 as a co-op student, and most recently served at president of Cami Automotive, a joint venture between GM and Suzuki in Canada. "If you are in this business... the business of building cars, this is a dream job. We've all dreamt of one day running the Corvette plant," said Parcell. Former manager, Paul Graham, has moved to Arlington Assembly Plant in Texas to oversee the production of conventional and hybrid versions of the Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade. What's In Your Museum? The National Corvette Museum is a living museum with ever-changing exhibits. Many of the vehicles in the Museum are on loan from private individuals and General Motors. New to the Floor The National Corvette Museum has just added its first-ever interactive exhibit – the “ Pit Crew Challenge ” to its regular display lineup. Guests touring the Museum can take part in a simulated pit crew to keep the Museum's Corvette Race car in the lead by fueling up, changing tires and putting out accidental pit crew fires. Guests can compete individually or as a team to beat the clock and get the racecar back on track. The Pit Crew Challenge offers a real hands-on experience through the use of actual tools and devices created to simulate a racing pit. The exhibit as been added after months of preparation and has made its home as part of the Museum's race track area. This is a real hands-on experience and guests will actually feel like part of a pit crew as they use tools to compete in the game that comes to life the minute they take control. There is no additional fee required to experience the “Pit Crew Challenge”.
Corvettes Movie Awards Great Moments In Corvette Celluloid There's Never Been A Great Corvette Movie, But There Have Been Great Corvettes In Movies Any Mustang guy will tell you that Bullitt is the greatest Mustang movie of all time. Dodge guys love Vanishing Point. Street-rodders all know American Graffiti backwards and forwards. There isn't a Porsche guy on earth who hasn't sat through Steve McQueen's Le Mans without imagining himself behind the wheel of 917. Heck, AMC Pacer fans flock to Wayne's World. But there's never really been a great Corvette movie. Oh, there have been Corvettes in movies, but counting cars parked in the background is a cheat. There's even been one movie that was actually about a Corvette and had the word "Corvette" in its title, but calling 1978's Corvette Summer a great movie is an irrational stretch. Corvettes have been used as hero cars, as the cars of villains, as props for mayhem, and as objects of desire and envy in movies, but there has never been that one film that fixes in the public's collective mind the essence of the Corvette's personality. Why is this so? While there's some real heft behind a couple of conspiracy theories, the truth is that cars are cast in films in about the same way that actors are: They get into the movie only if they fill the role correctly. It's hard to root for a hero who has all the advantages, and if a hero has a Corvette ... well, it's pretty obvious that things have already been going his way in life. That's why-though on occasion heroes drive a Corvette-it's more common for the heavy (who the hero will eventually overcome and vanquish) to own the sleek two-seater. Plus there's the simple fact that often a story requires three people to ride in a car (and this is a bigger factor than it might at first seem). Award One Dorian Gray Award for Best Reflection of Decrepitude Boogie Nights (1997) When porn star Dirk Diggler buys his orange '77 C3, it's new and it's pristine. But as time goes by and he becomes more debauched and more desperate, the car spirals downward with him. By the end of the film, he's a wreck and so is the car. Award Two Pamela Anderson Award for Startling Over-Inflation Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) According to Josh Hancock, automotive consultant on all of the Austin Powers movies, the red, white, and blue '65 roadster driven by "Felicity Shagwell" wasn't anything special. "It was just a nonmatching small-block car that wasn't in particularly good shape," he recalls. "It couldn't have been worth much more than, oh, at most 15 grand." Except, of course, that it had been in a movie. But dang if someone didn't think that being in a movie mattered. In an online auction run by New Line Cinema, the studio that released the film the summer of 1999, the car was sold for an unfathomable $121,000. Did actress Heather Graham leave a particularly adorable dent in the seat? For that kind of money, her butt should still have been in it. Award Three: Best Tiny Corvette In A Chase Scene The Dead Pool (1988) As the fifth movie in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series, The Dead Pool came out when most of the good ideas had already been played out and the weariness was obvious. But there was one amazing exception in the form of a chase through the streets of San Francisco between Harry and his partner in an Oldsmobile sedan (remember when they made those?) and a radio-controlled, scale-model midyear Stingray carrying an explosive charge. The scene plays as a sly parody of the classic chase in Bullitt, but also works on its own at being both suspenseful and unique. Too bad the rest of the movie is such a disappointment.
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