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Highlands Sports Car Club 2016 Night Series #2 - YouTube | highlands sports car clubFor some, there’s annihilation like a Corvette.
“It’s America’s sports car,’’ said Jake McCusker, of Richeyville. “We adore the way it handles, the way it looks. It’s astonishing the way it handles.’’
“It’s a accurately styled agent and the achievement — it has a V8 agent and consistently had rear-wheel drive,’’ empiric Chuck Kusiolek of Uniontown. “It’s a performance-oriented car and it has a addiction to draw bodies to the vehicle.’’
Carl McElroy of Uniontown has a 1958 Corvette that he’s endemic for 52 years: “There’s a lot of belief in that ’58.’’
Members of the Laurel Valley Corvette Club accept a abysmal acknowledgment for this archetypal sports car, a two-passenger auto that’s advised for acceleration and performance.
The Corvette debuted in 1953 and is bogus at a bulb in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Corvette National Building is amid nearby, alluring visitors from all over the country, including LVCC.
McCusker, club president, purchased his 2012 Grand Sport Corvette in Uniontown but collection to Bowling Green to aces up his car in what’s alleged a building delivery.
“They beatific the car to the building beyond the artery and I accustomed the VIP treatment,’’ said McCusker.
McCusker additionally catholic there in 2015 for the museum’s 25th anniversary.
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Novice Guide - Highlands Sports Car Club | highlands sports car club“I was the bounded leader. I took 25 Corvettes out of Southwestern Pennsylvania and we affiliated with Corvettes in Ohio. Aback we larboard Columbus, we were 250 strong,’’ he remembered.
There are Corvette owners who knew they capital one aback they were a youth.
Paul Petrone of Uniontown, who owns a 1999 C5 Corvette, remembered, “As a kid, I fell in adulation with it. Adolescent kids go for sports cars. Walking to academy in Uniontown, I’d canyon the Chevrolet barn on Fayette Artery and I’d see a Corvette in the window and dream.’’
Ron Cole of Uniontown aboriginal saw the car additionally as a adolescence and said he capital one “all my life.’’
When Cole brought his 1981 Corvette to a contempo LVCC meeting, three adolescent boys anon came over, agilely talking and absent to booty photos. Cole smiled with them and was blessed to oblige.
Founded in Uniontown in 1980, LVCC has about 35 associates from throughout the district.
Cole said, “You accommodated a lot of nice bodies with the aforementioned interests. And there’s all kinds of things to do and affairs to go to and car club activities.’’
The club meets from bounce through October at 6 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of ceremony ages at AMVETS Post 103 in Hopwood.
The Corvette Club additionally gives associates an befalling to associate through appropriate events, including a summer barbecue and an ceremony Christmas party. Club associates participate in a Corvette Night in affiliation with the Stone House in Chalk Hill area they accommodated outdoors, acclimate permitting, at the restaurant from 6 to 9 p.m. every added Wednesday. The abutting accident is slated for July 5.
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embed.jpg?buster=1490991492607 | highlands sports car clubAnd they like to drive their Corvettes together.
The club has hosted alley rallies as able-bodied as drives to car shows and attractions, such as Ohiopyle, Flight 93 National Memorial and Ocean City, Maryland. Associates additionally fabricated a drive to the National Corvette Building for the club’s 25th anniversary.
Those drives account club associates in abounding ways.
Kusiolek and his wife, Jenny, accept added than 100,000 afar on their 1973 Corvette. He remembered a ride the club took to Lancaster aback he began accepting a botheration with the car’s distributor.
“It was all easily on deck,’’ Kusiolek said. “Ultimately, I collection the car aback home after any issue. I had a careful backpack of Corvettes to accomplish abiding I got aback safely.’’
He added, “It’s a acceptable bearings to be in because you accept some advice and bodies who will abutment you. If you go alone, it may be a altered story.’’
That aggregate ability can be of advice to club associates at any time, as Kusiolek said, “You get calm with bodies who accept agnate issues. You’re not abandoned aggravating to amount it out.’’
The club is complex in association service, such as alteration the accession cloister at Laurel Highlands High Academy in Arctic Union Township and Geibel Catholic High Academy in Connellsville.
Club associates participate in bounded parades, including Americanism Day in Uniontown, National Alley Festival in Hopwood, Independence Day in Merrittstown and the Fayette County Veterans Day Parade.
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Highlands Sports Car Club - Home | Facebook | highlands sports car clubIn fact, Kusiolek batten in awe about alteration Florence Shutsy Reynolds of Connellsville, a affiliate of the Army Air Corps during World War II, while addition affiliate transported Anne Finnen of Uniontown, a WWII adept who served as a Navy WAVE.
“They were absolutely nice ladies,’’ remarked Kusiolek, who said the club was asked to carriage them by the American Legion. “We’ll do annihilation for the community. The abstraction is to get out and advice with any affectionate of event.’’
Petrone said he enjoys the parades for “the action of the bodies who see the cars coming, and we’re usually casual out candy.’’
Petrone acclaimed he takes a grandchild with him: “They attending advanced to these parades with me. I’ve taken bristles of them. They bandy the candy. It’s a nice ancestors thing.’’
Members best afresh took their Corvettes to the Fayette County Relay for Activity that allowances the American Cancer Society.
LVCC is additionally partnering with Centennial Chevrolet for their fourth ceremony All American Car Appearance that allowances the Fayette County Aliment Bank.
Held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 13 at the car dealership on Route 51 arctic of Uniontown, the appearance is accessible to American-manufactured cars and will accommodate DJ Arnie Amber and aliment by the Stone House Smoke House. (For added information, email McCusker at lmccusker@windstream.net or alarm 724-632-3375.)
Kusiolek mentioned accomplished car shows were captivated at Linden Hall in Dawson and remembers visiting Mount Macrina Manor nursing home in Arctic Union Township to appearance cars to the residents.
Petrone said of association events, “It gives you a acceptable activity to be able to advice out. I try to be as alive as possible. It’s consistently a acceptable activity of achievement aback you’re done.’’
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Highlands Sports Car Club | highlands sports car clubWhile LVCC keeps busy, the club consistently welcomes new members.
Kusiolek said, “I anticipate it’s all about accepting things to do with bodies who allotment a accepted interest.’’
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