The Corvette Club

Every other Tuesday night, you can find me at the meeting of the Gulf Coast Corvette Club, which meets in Bradenton, Florida at 25th and Manatee Avenues. You'll recognize the place by the many Corvettes parked in the lot. Now, not all of our members drive their Corvettes to the meeting, as evidenced by the picture of a truck parked next to the meeting room at Synovus Bank, but quite a few of us enjoy "daily driver" status for our cars. It's a great group of people, and a very healthy club in terms of membership - the pictures show a large gathering, and this is during the month of June after our "snowbirds" have gone north to other homes.

I've written about the trip to Solomon's Castle in a previous blog entry, and our club routinely has events where we can gather. Our meetings, which start at 7 PM, are generally over by 7:45 and we then all go to dinner together. Each meeting ends with picking the restaurant for the following meeting, and our most recent was at Appleby's. We have other favorites, including an oyster bar, a pizza place, rib and barbecue joints, and Greek restaurants - we're an eclectic group of gourmands, and sometimes I think we're a dining society masquerading as a car club.

I'm going to miss these guys over the summer, but I'll be taking my "colors" with me and drop in on Missouri car shows where my license plate and drivers license generally guarantees a prize for "greatest distance traveled".