Driving a Veteran to Corvette Museum
03-05-2011, 01:58 PM
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Driving a Veteran to Corvette Museum
I signed up to drive a Veteran from Ft. Campbell to the Corvette Museum. I am so excited and can't believe that I am actually doing this. My daughter and I will be driving the 02 coupe from Laurel, Md. to Bowling Green, Kentucky (700 miles) and driving an American Hero to the Museum and then touring the museum and then touring the GM assembly plant. After that we will go to the banquet and then drive back the next day. The Vette is ready and we are really looking forward to this trip. It should be a great experience and maybe we will meet some other forum members. Thanks, Bill (laurelboy)
03-05-2011, 02:07 PM
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I signed up to drive a Veteran from Ft. Campbell to the Corvette Museum. I am so excited and can't believe that I am actually doing this. My daughter and I will be driving the 02 coupe from Laurel, Md. to Bowling Green, Kentucky (700 miles) and driving an American Hero to the Museum and then touring the museum and then touring the GM assembly plant. After that we will go to the banquet and then drive back the next day. The Vette is ready and we are really looking forward to this trip. It should be a great experience and maybe we will meet some other forum members. Thanks, Bill (laurelboy)
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03-05-2011, 02:40 PM
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Enjoy the trip!
03-05-2011, 04:03 PM
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Where did you "sign up" ? I had not heard of this before.
Oops, just looked at the top of the page. Going to check into this.
Oops, just looked at the top of the page. Going to check into this.
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03-05-2011, 04:50 PM
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My thread about this event was made into a sticky. It includes a link to the Corvette Museum website for more info and registration.
03-05-2011, 05:49 PM
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03-05-2011, 06:10 PM
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03-05-2011, 08:59 PM
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John,this is going to be a great experience for us. The honor of driving these guys and with a state police escort, those 50 Corvettes are going to be awesome riding down the road to the Museum and honoring them. I can't wait to see the museum and all the festivities. My daughter and I are also going to tour the assembly plant. This will truly be a once in a lifetime experience. Bill
03-05-2011, 09:38 PM
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John,this is going to be a great experience for us. The honor of driving these guys and with a state police escort, those 50 Corvettes are going to be awesome riding down the road to the Museum and honoring them. I can't wait to see the museum and all the festivities. My daughter and I are also going to tour the assembly plant. This will truly be a once in a lifetime experience. Bill
03-05-2011, 10:17 PM
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I noticed there is a drivers meeting at the NCM the morning of the 29th before heading out to Fort Campbell. Since I only live about 20 miles from Fort Campbell it looks like I get to drive to Bowling Green early that morning then down to the post and back to the NMC all before lunch. Sounds like fun!
I assume we will take US 68W out of Bowling Green down to Hopkinsville where we swing due South on 41A to the post. 68 is a 4 lane divided highway that's in pretty good shape for it's age. It does have a 55mph speed limit so it will be interesting to see how our escort handles that. I just remembered that the Pennyrile Parkway which used to end in Hopkinsville has just had it's final section completed and was opened this past weekend. It runs from Hopkinsville to I24 which is just a few miles north of Fort Campbell, so that could be the last leg instead of 41A.
If you are not familiar with that part of Kentucky will will get to see something very unusual. About 50 miles or so outside of Bowling Green you will see on your left going down the Jefferson Davis Monument, a 351 foot tall cast concrete obelisk marking the birthplace of the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. It looks just like the Washington Monument in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFj-Dd-j2DA
I assume we will take US 68W out of Bowling Green down to Hopkinsville where we swing due South on 41A to the post. 68 is a 4 lane divided highway that's in pretty good shape for it's age. It does have a 55mph speed limit so it will be interesting to see how our escort handles that. I just remembered that the Pennyrile Parkway which used to end in Hopkinsville has just had it's final section completed and was opened this past weekend. It runs from Hopkinsville to I24 which is just a few miles north of Fort Campbell, so that could be the last leg instead of 41A.
If you are not familiar with that part of Kentucky will will get to see something very unusual. About 50 miles or so outside of Bowling Green you will see on your left going down the Jefferson Davis Monument, a 351 foot tall cast concrete obelisk marking the birthplace of the first and only President of the Confederate States of America. It looks just like the Washington Monument in DC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFj-Dd-j2DA
03-06-2011, 01:17 AM
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I would love to participate but it falls in the middle of the week and I could only make it if it were on a weekend. I still gonna try and work it out though.
03-06-2011, 08:05 PM
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What a great time that should be. Post up some pics of the event when you get back.