Finally! As a long time Hemmings (Muscle Machines and Motor News) magazine subscriber and enthusiast, I was absolutely thrilled when I saw the red 1962 Corvette on your September issue cover, having had one of these back in high school. In 1966 it wasn’t such a big deal to own a used four-year-old Chevy. All it took was $2,500 cash and my dad to co-sign for this 18-year-old kid to drive his dream car... that, a 3.5 grade-point average, and a promise to my folks to head to college after high school. Done! Working for the GM Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Assembly Plant at nights and going to college in the daytime worked out pretty well, until the Vietnam War came along. In 1968, I signed up for my four-year stint in the U.S. Navy and made two Vietnam combat tours for Uncle Sam. After that, it was back to building new GM products like Camaros and Firebirds, getting married, having kids and grandkids, and becoming a productive “young-to-old” (-er) citizen, until my retirement from GM some 36-plus years later, in 2004. Wow... what a ride!
And speaking of rides...my reason for writing
