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“It was the best of times,” Ogden said. “To be young, single and male driving a new Corvette in Southern California… I couldn’t lose.” But like so many Corvette owners, he had to grow up and decided to do the sensible thing and buy a boring 1967 Olds Delta 88, getting a little over $2,000 for his beloved ‘Vette on the trade-in. He never expected to see the car again, but then fate stepped in more than 35 years later. At his 50th class reunion in 2003, his sister gave him a box of items she’d found at their parents’ house years earlier. “Back when I bought the Corvette, I took everything and sent it home to my Mom and Dad, along with some photos of me and the car,” Ogden said. “I’d forgotten all about it. I didn’t even know that stuff still existed.” Inside the box was a photo of Ogden washing his 1962 Corvette, along with the paperwork for the car. He soon had the fever to own another Corvette similar to his first one. For the next three years, he searched high and low but just couldn’t find the right Corvette. Then in 2007, a man called him from California and said he had a white 1962 Corvette for sale. Ogden thought the man was asking too much for the car – until he got some NCRS paperwork on the car, including the VIN. He compared it to the paperwork his sister had found and discovered that miraculously it was his old car! “I never would have known I’d found my car if I hadn’t sent that bill of sale to my parents,” Ogden said. “I know how lucky I am. My story is unique. It rarely ever happens.” Having his old friend back at home brought all those wonderful memories of their good times together in the 1960s flooding back, so much so that Ogden decided to share the stories with other Corvette enthusiasts in what has quickly turned into at least a four-book series called “When We Were Young with Our Corvettes: California Adventures in the Early 1960s.” At age 76, Ogden is living proof that once a Corvette enthusiast, always a Corvette enthusiast. 2013 Corvette Coupe Wins Strategic Vision’s Total Quality Award Strategic Vision announced the winners of their 18th annual Total Quality Awards last week. Just like last year, the Chevrolet Corvette Coupe took best of show honors in the Premium Coupe category. The C6 also topped the Premium Convertible/Roadster division as well. For the first time in more than 10 years, domestic cars make up a majority of the Total Quality Award winners. The Strategic Vision Total Quality award takes into account explicit owner statements on 442 vehicle attributes. It also looks at factors such as warranty, technical innovation, standard equipment, fuel economy, and others. Each category is given a weighted value. “Our on-going, revolutionary goal is always capturing the hearts and minds of the customer’s decisionmaking. That is why we use scales that include: 5) I Love It, 4) Delightful, 3) Excellent, 2) Satisfactory and 1) A Failure. We use specific aspects of specific emotions to create a scale that captures concrete
judgments with great clarity, thus we have Total Quality,” said Darrel Edwards, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Chairman of Strategic Vision. The 2013 Total Quality data derived from 17,568 buyers who acquired new 2013 cars between September and November 2012. The Corvette Coupe accumulated 931 total points in this year’s survey. That’s up from 812 points in 2012 when it beat out the Cadillac CTS. Over in the Premium Convertible/Roadster category the C6 beat out the Porsche Boxster by a score of 959 to 957. Now that the sixth generation Corvette has ended production we imagine it’s just a matter of time before the awards start rolling in the C7 Corvette. C7 Corvette Stingrays on an Auto Transport No more will you be seeing auto transports rolling down the road filled with colorful Corvettes from the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. GM will be transporting the new 2014 Corvette Stingrays to dealers with a special new cover to help protect the new cars as they are in transit. We got word about the new covers after speaking with Quality Manager Tom Hill at the 2013 NCM Bash. Hill said that they’ve been making test runs with loaded transports up and down the interstate and were following the Stingrays in video-equipped chase vehicles to monitor and review how well the covers do their job. It’s just another sign that shows how far Chevrolet has come to insure that the customer gets their new Corvette in the best condition possible. The fate of the covers once the new Corvettes reach their destination is unknown. Virginia Man is Fulfilling Life Long Dream to Get His Kicks on Route 66 If you see a white C5 convertible on Route 66 over the next few days, you might just be witnessing a dream coming true. Bob Welborn, a 62-year-old Corvette enthusiast, was up before the sun last Thursday morning, heading west to live out a boyhood fantasy of driving crosscountry, the way Tod and Buz did in the 1960s TV show “Route 66.” “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and I just made up my mind that this year, I’m gonna do it,” Welborn said. “I’m not getting any younger, and my health’s not getting any better.”
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