04.09.16
2nd Annual Spring Fling
Ocala, FL
What a great day, weather wise. Days like this are why we all moved to Florida, right. Great participation from VVCC member cars, even picked up 2 new members.
04.02.16
VETTES AT THE VILLAGE
Sandestin, FL
Two members, two Vettes, 3 trophies:
Mike & Linda White: BEST IN CLASS WINNER
Ron & Marty Tanner: SECOND IN CLASS WINNER
01.23.16
WONDERFUL WORLD OF
CORVETTES
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01.23.16
NCRS
JUDGING
Lakeland, FL
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12.16.15
This year we absolutely shattered all previous records for this worthy cause collecting and delivering over
Two Thousand Toys
and over
$10,000
in cash
Our sincere thanks to Jon Cohan and the entire staff at
without whose help and assistance we'd not have been able to make this happen for needy area kids.
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12.11.15
HOLIDAY DINNER & DANCE
Catered by Riccardi's of Brownwood with entertainment by Suzie Castro. A good time was had by all.
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12.08.15
MT. DORA
CHRISTMAS LIGHT WALK
&
DINNER
Our sincere thanks to Dick & Linda Ford for organizing such a wonderful day in Mt.Dora. The lights were spectacular as was our group dinner at the historic Lakeside Inn.
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11.14.15
Another very interesting visit to one of the club's favorite destinations, EARS followed by a dinner at the historic YEARLING RESTAURANT right down the road. The club thanks Stan & Peggy Cranston for their efforts in putting together this great cruise & dinner.
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11.01.15 - 11.04.15
CORVETTES GALORE AT SEMA 2015
mild to wild to butt ugly
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11.07.15
ALL GM SHOW
Eustis, FL
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11.05.15
GRAND OPENING
WILDWOOD, FL LOCATION
The show at NAPA in Wildwood on 11/05 was fantastic. Free burgers & drinks. Great door prizes including a smoker, IPad & a 40 inch flat screen TV. Shown above is Bud and Mary Ellen Fisher, recipients of one of the many trophies handed out. Our sincere thanks to Alan Stone, head of TVAACA for including VVCC member cars in this great event.
A link to a really cool video of the cars on display
http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreHappy/4e444d794d7a497a4e544e384f5459784d4445334f44453d0d0a
10.16.15ANNUAL CORVETTES AT THE LANDING SHOW
LAKE SUMTER LANDING, THE VILLAGES
The "LOADING OF THE LANDING"
suggest watching this @ low resolution (240p, 360p or 480p) to prevent "jerky" viewing
OCT 17 2015
VETTES ON THE AVENUE
MELBOURNE FL
Six cars from the Village Vettes in attendance. Mel Zeiger, Mike White, Tom Swiers, Tom Rohan and Pete Paisley, & Ray Lake. Top 25 trophies were received by Mike White and Ray Lake.
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OCT 2015
FLAGLER BEACH CORVETTE SHOW
OCT 2015
Piper Aircraft Factory Tour Cruise
Sept 2015
A great time "role playing" and a very fun show.
Our congratulations go out to members Dan & Annette Breit on their newest "TOY", a BLADE SILVER, BLACK TOP, RED INTERIOR 2016 Z06 with all the bells and whistles.
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07-13-15 GRAND OPENING
Lots of Vettes, Lots of Heat, Lots of Humidity, Lots of Pizza, Lots of Classic Cars. A great time in spite of the heat & humidity. Our thanks to Alan Stone and The Villages Antique Automotive Club of America for including us.
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07-11-15
AUTO ZONE
GRAND OPENING
Lots of Vettes, Lots of Heat, Lots of Humidity, Lots of Pizza, Lots of Classic Cars. A great time in spite of the heat & humidity. Our thanks to Alan Stone and The Villages Antique Automotive Club of America for including us. 
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06-25-15
DUCK DAM DINER BRUNCH CRUISE
32 Corvettes, 30 members ate to excess. Great food, great service, all at a fair price.
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06-20-15
St. Augustine Corvette Show
Fifteen member cars attended from Roger & Cindy's 1998 Indy Pace Car to Dan & Pam Sabo's 2015 C7 with at least one winner in the group.
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06-16-15
ELVIS "The King" LIVES
Our sincere thanks to Joe and Pauline Apichella for their continuing efforts to raise money for "The Kids in The Forest" and the BACKPACK PROGRAM via his church. It certainly seemed that everyone in attendance had a great time.
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06-05-15
STETSON MANSION LUNCH CRUISE
The club's sincere thanks goes out to Tony and Penny Badolato for organizing and executing this wonderful lunch cruise. A great turn out, great trip, great tour, followed by, what I'm told was, a great lunch. The pictures are spectacular. Postcard quality.
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05-30-15
CEDAR KEY LUNCH CRUISE
53 out of 58 cars that were signed up & scheduled made the trek to Cedar Key through the forests and to the GULF. As usual, 4 members decided not to RSVP, they just didn't show up. HOW RUDE IS THAT??? Anyway, 53 CORVETTES made the trek to Cedar Key through the forests and to the GULF. No one broke down, no one complained, no one pee'd their pants (as far as I know), everything went according to plan - UNTIL - our promised secure reserved parking upon arrival on Cedar Key magically evaporated, thanks to our host, Ms. Leslie Valens with the Chamber of Commerce who, from day one, promised me she'd have said parking for us but, as happens most times, people just don't do their job. Not to be discouraged, we pulled into Cedar Key anyway, parked all over the damn town, and all made their way to STEAMER CLAM BAR & GRILL for a very nice lunch. Our thanks goes out to Dennis, the manager, and his entire wait staff who tolerated and accommodated our motley crew with a smile and provided complimentary lunches for 40 of our members. Lesa Meade and her husband, owners of the Cedar Key RV Park are also to be thanked for providing us parking space and a location to stage our cars before heading into Cedar Key. The break was perfect.
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05-23-15
Pickin' Parlour Cafe & Sound Shop
Out sincere thanks to Tim & Terri B for coming up with this clever idea, A MAGICAL MYSTERY LUNCH TOUR. Have never heard of this establishment in Weirsdale but it looks like everyone had a great time.
05-16-15
Ponce Inlet Corvette Show
Stewart & Susan Feinberg captured the First Place in the C7 Category with their "new car". Unfortunately, they were the only VVCC members in attendance but it didn't dampen their fun. According to Stewart, it was a really great show.
05-07-15
LAKE HARRIS HIDEAWAY
LUNCH CRUISE
Once again, Bud & Mary Ellen Fisher outdid themselves by pulling together this great lunch cruise at the last minute. Wonderful drive, wonderful venue, wonderful time by all 44 members (22 Vettes) that made the trip.
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05-02-15
Sarasota Corvette Show. The Club had 7 Cars entered and we walked away with 4 trophies. Not bad work for one afternoon
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04-25 & 26-15
The Stuart Corvette Club's 17th
Annual River Cruise-In Corvette Show held at the Beautiful Ft. Pierce City Marina
04-19-15
60's BASH CAR SHOW & SOCK HOP
In spite of the thunderous storm, everyone survived and danced the night away while raising money for Operation Homebound. Our thanks to everyone that participated.
04-18-15
OLD SPANISH SUGAR MILL CRUISE
04-12-15 thru 04-19-15
Village Vettes 10th Anniversary 7-Day Eastern Caribbean Cruise. Departed Port Fort Lauderdale, Florida on 04-12-15 and cruised to the port locations of San Juan, Puerto Rico; Basseterre, St. Kitts; and Philipsburg, St. Maarten.
03-21-15
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VETTES IN VENICE
The Venice Corvette Club graciously posted these unique pdf picture files which include ALL ENTRANT CARS WITH A REALLY COOL BORDER.
- SELECT a file to browse thru to find your car
- Find you car
- Print ONLY THE PAGE that holds your car's pic,
- Now you've got a smokin pic of your ride.
- Wanna save it, click SAVE in the tool bar and it'll save the entire document to YOUR computer.
- Don't have ADOBE, click here and I'll help you: http://www.villagevettes.com/vv-com-for-dummies/
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Again this year, all the attending women received a long stem red rose as a thank you for sharing our never ending love of AMERICA'S FIRST AND ONLY SPORTS CAR, The Chevrolet Corvette. The FABULOUS DORELS entertained us with many songs from our past that, hopefully, lit "the fire of love" for many of our members.
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10/09/14
MEMBERSHIP MEETING MOTOWN SHOW
10/03/14
RON PERELLA MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT
09/01/14
CRYSTAL RIVER ALE HO-- USE CRUISE
09-2014
20TH ANNIV. NATIONAL CORVETTE M-- USEUM CARAVAN
The club was honored with the
FIRST PLACE AWARD for their NCM banner
08/09/14
08/02/14
07/11/14
06/29/14
06/28/14
THE GREAT AMERICAN RACE
VILLAGE CAR CLUBS SHOW
06/10/14
INDY
06/10/14
STRA Program Race @ INDY
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06/09/14
NCM SINHOLE CARS
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05/10/14
MEMBERSHIP MEETING & LUAU
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05/02 & 05/03/14
St.ARMAND CIRCLE CORVETTE SHOW
04/26 & 04/27/14
Ft. PIERCE MARINA CORVETTE SHOW
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04/17/14
HOLLERBACH WILLOWTREE CAFE CR-- USE
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04/10/14
KEITH MANSON ENTERTAINMENT & MEETING
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04/06/14
STREET ROD SHOW, CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY
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04/02/14
GOLDEN FLAKES POTATO CHIP FACTORY TOUR
03/29/14
THE BLESSING OF THE VETTES
CLICK HERE FOR: The Village Vettes Shutterfly Site
See all pictures, videos, etc of club events, meetings, shows, cruises, etc. Additionally there's some really neat albums of CORVETTE STUFF to brows through. ENJOY!!!!
A REALLY GREAT C6 VIDEO 10/8/14
A MUST SEE. . .
June 2014: The Great American Race VIDEOS
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SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT CORVETTES
Corvette Hall of Famer Betty Skelton Passes at Age 85
Most Villagers are unaware that living among us for many years was Betty Skelton, the former acrobatic pilot and Corvette test driver who was known as the “fastest woman on Earth”. Betty died Wednesday August 31,2011 at the age of 85. For her contributions to Corvette which included roles as a test driver, car show technical narrator and one of the founders of Corvette News (which later became Corvette Quarterly), Betty was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame in 2001.
Betty was born in Pensacola, Florida and made her first solo flight at the age of 12. By 18, she held a commercial pilots license and was a certified flight instructor. Her father organized an amateur air show in 1945 and Betty was asked to do some basic stunts. Having mastered some aerobatic maneuvers, Betty became a professional aerobatic pilot and performed at air shows across the country.
Betty’s most impressive stunt during this time was cutting a ribbon strung between two poles with her propeller while flying upside down 10 feet off the ground.
Skelton held the title for the US Female Aerobatics Championship from 1948-1950. In 1949 she set the world light-plane altitude record of 25,763 in a Piper Cub and two years later broke her own record with a flight of 29,050 feet.
In 1953 after retiring from aerobatic flying, Betty was piloting charter flights when she met NASCAR’s Bill France Sr. Bill invited Betty to Daytona Beach in 1954 where she drove the Pace Car. She then took a Dodge sedan to 105.88 mph on the beach, setting a stock car speed record for women.
It was in 1956 that she joined Campbell-Ewald, the advertising partner of General motors. She became the first woman technical narrator at the major auto shows where she would talk about the cars and demonstrate their features. Zora Arkus-Duntov put her to work as a test driver where she set numerous speed records with Corvettes. In 1957, Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell designed a special translucent gold Corvette which Betty drove to Daytona in 1957 to serve as the NASCAR pace car. It was also during this time that Betty Skelton became the official spokeswoman for Chevrolet.
Her career in advertising was moving just a quickly. While at Campbell-Ewald, Skelton helped launch the internal magazine called Corvette News which later became known as Corvette Quarterly. She became VP of Campbell-Ewald’s Women’s Market and Advertising departing in 1969 and retired in 1976 after 20 years in advertising.
Skelton was the first woman to drive an Indy car and she repeatedly set records for speed and acceleration at Daytona Beach and on the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. In 1956, she broke a transcontinental speed record, driving from New York to Los Angeles, covering 2,913 miles in 56 hours, 58 minutes.
In 2001, Betty Skelton was inducted in the National Corvette Museum’s Corvette Hall of Fame for all her contributions to Corvette. She is also a member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame as well as the Motorsports Hall of Fame.
