One of 2
authorized Indianapolis Motor Speedway Pace Car Replicas
On Display at
the National Corvette Museum from 2005 - Oct
2010
Pace car
conversion including paint, taillights and 2005 IMS
Logo seats
Car has 602
Miles at the end of 2010
This car started it's
life as an official track vehicle. In 2005
there were 3 official pace cars, 8 Victory Red festival
Corvettes, and the rest of the festival vehicles
were
the yellow Chevrolet SSRs. This Corvette was
Victory Red festival car #5 of 8. It was a
certified parade-lap vehicle and participated in a lot
of the activities in May. It has full
documentation from the month, including the Certificate
of Authenticity as an official parade vehicle, as well
as all the parking, flag lot, and misc Indy 500
artifacts, and all window sticker and original receipt
documents.
Strobed
Indy 500 Corvette
Replica...one of a kind!
After the month of
May this car was sold as a "drive away" and ended up
at Lakeshore Chevrolet in Euclid, Ohio. Where the
first owner located it, bought it, and shipped it back
to Indy for the IMS Authentication and pace car
conversion.
Once the car was
converted to an official replica, it was loaded on a
trailer and taken to the National Corvette Museum and
place in the Pace Car display in the rotunda.
My first exposure to
this car was in early 2006 when we stopped at the
Corvette Museum on our way back from vacation in
Gatlinburg. Little did we know that we were taking
a picture in front of a car we would someday own about 5
years (and 50 pounds less for me) later...
We had the
opportunity to purchase this car in October 2010
from the original owner. When the deal was
complete, we drove to Bowling Green to take the car out
of the museum and trailer it home.
Re-index the windows...top won't go up...huh?
So I’m an idiot…
This was my first C6 and when we arrived at NCM the key
fob was dead and the battery was dead from sitting for
5+years. We jump started the car and I was smart enough
to get the car on the trailer before shutting it off,
but not smart enough to figure out why the top would not
go up. I tried for 45 minutes to figure it
out. Car on the trailer, running, me sifting
through documentation trying get the top up, gathering a
crowd because the car was so cool and I was so dumb.
Turns out…if the battery
was dead the "windows need to be re-indexed” before the
top will work (thanks to my friend
LaVelle…). I found out part of the window
indexing process requires the car to be turned off. When
I shut it off? The car would not restart because the
battery was...still dead. We ended up trailering it home
with the top down and I bought a new battery on my way
into Indy. It was a beautiful October day and turned out
fine. But that’s why the top is down in this picture!
(For the record, I kept the original
battery and it is now fully charged)
were
the yellow Chevrolet SSRs. This Corvette was
Victory Red festival car #5 of 8. It was a
certified parade-lap vehicle and participated in a lot
of the activities in May. It has full
documentation from the month, including the Certificate
of Authenticity as an official parade vehicle, as well
as all the parking, flag lot, and misc Indy 500
artifacts, and all window sticker and original receipt
documents.
