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 CANTON, Mich. -- The Corvette Legends Club held its annual Corvettes at the Summit show in Canton Saturday July 14 under leaden skies that threatened rain, but thankfully never delivered.
As the judges began to make their rounds early in the day owners busily buffed and dusted Corvettes that already looked better than they did the day they rolled off the assembly line. Paulette Morgan of Lake Orion polished the chrome wheels of the black '98 C-5 she and her husband Dave brought to the show, as Dave sat nearby in a lawn chair with a big grin on his face. "She's looking to get a new diamond ring," he said. "He's kidding," she said. "He does most of the work. I just do the final detailing." She explained that Dave lost his eyesight three years earlier but refuses to let that interfere with his love of Corvettes. He spent the day before the show waxing the car himself, with only an occasional tip from Paulette about areas he missed. The Morgans also have a more recent vintage Corvettte, a Z-06 that Dave has never seen. "I'll see it one day," he said. "I intend to get my sight back." Their car, by the way, received a Gold Award in the judging. Parked next to the Morgans' car was my own 2006 C-6 convertible that was about to be judged for the first time. I watched nervously as the judges went over the car from front to rear and felt my stomach churn as they studied the interior. I needn't have worried. The car scored 149 1/2 out of a possible 150 points to earn its own Gold Award. I can't take complete credit though. I had the car detailed the day before at Supreme Detailing on Joy Road in Canton. The Corvette legends that ringed the pond in Canton's Heritage Park ranged from Bill Sauer's white 1954 all the way to some 2008 Z-06 and C-6 models sporting some of the new colors available. In between were plenty of superb examples of all the Corvette bodies, including a split-window '63 shown by Terry Ulch, Juan Bradford's yellow 1971, and Jim Royster's yellow and black 1985.
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