Dale Withers Peck, who knows and loves cars, checked in to say that she had read an article in the February issue of Hemmings Motor News written by Jim Datsko. It’s his reminiscence of a car he bought while in Advanced Infantry Training at Ford Ord in 1970, on the theory that if you’re not sure about coming back alive from your next assignment, you might as well go for the top item on your bucket list. So he bought a dream car: a Nassau Blue 1965 Corvette Stingray. At $2300, it ate up most of his net worth, but he was soon cruising down the Big Sur coast, hitting over 100 mph on the Laguna Seca Raceway, and fulfilling the fantasies of the junior high kid watching “Route 66” that he had been not too many years before. That car kept him company at Fort Benning and Fort Hood and was followed by a succession of other Stingrays after the salty roads of a few Michigan winters rusted her out.
Please click here to see the article in the February issue of Hemmings Motor News.
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