Team Vette was recently invited to attend the Circle City Corvette Club's 33rd meet in Dothan, Alabama. The club organizes a caravan that travels from Dothan to Panama City Beach (Florida), then finishes out the weekend with seminars, a car show, and a fund-raising auction for the National Corvette Museum. We'll have a full feature story on this unique event in the near future.

On May 19-20, a private racing team owned by Georg Guttroff brought Corvette a class victory in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. It was a first for the marque at this legendary racing circuit.

For the second year in a row, Corvette Racing took victory at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca road course after an incredible team effort granted the No.3 Compuware Corvette C6.R a flawless race.

This year's Corvettes at Carlisle event in Pennsylvania will feature one of the rarest Corvettes in existence -- the Corvette Rondine concept. Originally built for the Paris auto show, the Rondine had been on display at the Pininfarina Museum in Italy until 2008, when it was sold at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction for roughly $1.7 million. The Rondine is special in that it is that it is the one and only steel-bodied Corvette ever created and it was a rare collaboration between Chevy and famed Italian design house Pininfarina. It's based on a '63 Corvette chassis and has a 327cid/360-hp V8 under the hood.

If you missed out on the first round of the Mantic Performance Clutches Photo Contest, now's your chance to get in on the fun. Through July 31, 2013, VETTE and Mantic are teaming up to present Round 2 of the contest, which is once again open to all LS-powered '97-'13 Corvettes. The winner, as selected by our staff, will receive a $2,500 check from Mantic.

Vette Magazine recently released a line of merchandise and apparel proudly branded with the Vette logo. The line features both men's and women's shirts, as well as visors and beverage koozies so that your drinks are always cold at car shows!

Oschersleben, Germany: Callaway Competition, located in Leingarten, Germany, won the opening round of the 2013 ADAC GT Masters series with its eight-year-old Corvette Z06.R GT3. Drivers Daniel Keilwitz and Diego Alessi finished ahead of the No. 12 Second Place BMW Z4 GT3. Callaway has continued to upgrade the Corvette each year to keep it competitive with its rivals' more-modern entries.

The new seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette has been chosen to lead the field to green at the 97th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 26. It is the 12th time in the history of "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" that a Corvette has served as the pace car.

Congratulations to Forrest Mocny of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose Corvette photo (shown) was recently selected as the top entry in our VETTE/Mantic Performance Clutches Photo Contest. For his efforts, Mr. Mocny will receive a $2,500 check from Mantic.

The '68-'82 Corvette was the longest-running generation in this two-seater's 60-year history. Though the car's appearance evolved in that period to remain current, many of its basic mechanical features, including the fuel system, didn't change much at all. In fact, the 20-gallon fuel tank and line were virtually the same from 1963 to 1974, with the exception being a midyear change in the '69 model, from a non-vented tank to a vented one. There were then various changes to the filler and tank from 1975 on, to handle the federally mandated evaporative-emissions equipment.

Nothing lasts forever, especially the window seals and weatherstripping on old cars. The sun and air take their toll, turning originally soft and pliable material into hard, cracked, and crumbling components.

Many car enthusiasts dream of one day taking their cars to the limit at the historic Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah. However, The Flats, the name given to a 45-square mile area of flat barren land coated with a salt crust, are rapidly deteriorating. Located where Lake Bonneville once existed, the salt crust is rapidly depleting and today only about an inch of salt remains. The Bonneville Salt Flats have served as the location for numerous Land Speed records, and are a vital part of the history of American automotive performance. Here's how you can help "Save the Salt!"

The Show
The past, present, and future of Bonneville Salt Flats racing will all come to life at the 2014 Grand National Roadster Show. The event will be held at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA, on January 24-26, 2014.

Master German model-maker Minichamps has just released a very-limited-edition (650 pieces) model of one of Callaway Competition's spectacular GT3 Corvettes. The model is rendered in 1/32 scale and filled with incredible details outside and in.

With six out of seven Australian states and territories boasting major Corvette clubs, and only one of those playing host to the Corvette Nationals each year, it can take a while for the event to take place in each major center. In 2012, that honor fell to the New South Wales Corvettes Unlimited Car Club.

It was difficult to decide what was more spectacular at the first-ever Lingenfelter Performance Nationals: the blistering performance of GM engineer Dave Michaels, who ran away with the autocross title while piloting a Thomson Automotive–prepared Grand Sport, or the mind-warping 7.09-second elapsed time laid down by Mark Carlyle in his IRS-suspended, turbocharged Z06. Either way, the enthusiasts in attendance were treated to a show—and history.

Say "'54 Corvette," and what mental image comes to mind? Perhaps it's a Top Flight NCRS show car, or a new-to-the-public National Corvette Museum exhibit, or maybe even a six-figure auction dream find.

Of all the 7,121 Corvette convertibles that rolled out of St. Louis Assembly during the 1971 model year, Jack DiMaggio's has to be among the most original of the bunch.

If you love Corvette styling, you know that the marque's signature bumps and curves started when Chevrolet introduced the '63 model. It had exaggerated body lines that offered a futuristic look (for the era), so it certainly garnered lots of attention. Although several changes took place before the '64 Corvette hit the showroom, the car retained the classic lines that made the previous year's edition so popular. From then on, folks tried their best to modify the body panels of the midyear Corvette, but only rarely were they able to improve upon the original design.

For Corvette devotees who make the pilgrimage to Carlisle each year, the phrase "Small world, isn't it?" can take on special meaning. As it did with Alan Arthur last year, resulting in this Callaway C16 gracing his Corvette collection.

If you recall from our first two installments of "Battle in the Snake Pit" (VETTE, Sep. and Dec. '12), Corvettes have become a force to be reckoned with in the North American Road Racing Association's (NARRA) two new grassroots-style racing series: the US GT Championship (USGTC) and the Whelen US TimeTrial Championship (USTTC).

Corvette lovers, mark your calendars for mid-January 2013. Thats when SPEED will wish you a happy new year with its latest car-guy (and -gal) show, called Vetted, A Corvette Series. The 13-episode, half-hour series celebrates the Corvette culture from its inception more than 60 years ago, through its classic muscle-car years, into its current incarnation as a world-class sports car, and beyond.

There are some of us in this world who are Luddites: We like fountain pens, miss our film cameras, and still find ourselves mightily stirred by the low rumble of a big-block. Practicality, however, drags many of us kicking and screaming into the modern era, which includes the LS series of engines from GM.

In the six decades that the Corvette has been in production, several of its major generational makeovers have coincided with anniversary years. The C2 debuted 10 years after the first Vettes rolled off the Flint assembly line in 1953; the shark era started on the Vette’s 15th birthday; and production of the C4 began in 1983, a launch that took place on the Corvette’s 30th birthday even though those cars were marketed as ’84 models.

Before Bob Bondurant piloted racing Cobras to record-setting wins, he cut his competition teeth on solid-axle Corvettes. That he did so well on the track, with such comparatively primitive equipment (at least by todays standards), is a testament to his driving skills and competitive spirit.