Car club · Alabama

Capitol City Corvette Club (AL)

Marque Club

I have been married for 22 years to the same woman, Evie. Evie currently lives in our house in Alabaster and owns her own business as a vocal coach. She shares my love for Corvettes, but she is not quite so obsessive about them as I. I first fell in love with the Corvette when I was 18 years old. Before that, it was muscle cars – primarily GM products. I had helped restore a 66 Mustang and a 71 Challenger, but never owned anything cool. When I was 18, I drove my boss’ 1982 Collector Edition. That was a turning point for me. The car was quick (for that day’s standards) and handled like a go-cart. I loved that car. Fast Forward to 2005. Evie and I were talking about riding up the Blue Ridge Parkway and she refused to ride on a motorcycle with me, so we started looking for a convertible. We looked at Mustangs, Chryslers, Mitsubishis, Mazda’s, even a SAAB! Everyone we looked at we found something wrong with. Not enough power, not enough room, just plain ugly, the lsit goes on. I had seen a 1998 Indy Pace car at a local car lot and I mentioned to Evie we could probably get a used Vette for the cost of the new convertibles we were looking at. I was only about half-serious at the time. That started the ball rolling. She really did her research. A few months later we were the proud owners on a 2000 Triple Black C5 convertible. I had a couple hot-rod Infiniti’s so I told her this was her car.