Corvette owners giving love.

When you own a Corvette, you don’t just own a car – you join a club.

What's most common thing overheard at Corvettes at Carlisle? 'Hey! Nice Corvette!'

The same could be said for this stock 2010 Grand Sport.

This Sateen Silver car has been raised from the dead after sitting in a field for 38 years.

S(n)akes alive! This Viper Red resto-mod has an LS3 stuffed between the front wheels and a Tremec tranny behind it.

1961 vs. 1962

While there was a significant change from C1-C2-C3, Corvette styling has been more evolutionary instead of revolutionary since then.

Some people love the look of a classic Corvette but want the drivability of a modern car. Is this the answer? Only you can answer that.

Here’s another 1956 Corvette. This is one of 147 Cascade Green/Beige cars produced that year. The current owner bought it in 1965 for $800 – his first car – painted it maroon and swiftly started having fun. Two years later he painted it black, got married, and continued to use it every day. He sold it in 1971 for $1,200. Thirty-six years later, it was located in Pennsylvania and bought back. Now it’s back to its original color combination and has electronic fuel injection, a C4 suspension with power steering, 4L60 automatic transmission, and 4.11 gears out back.

The word 'patina' is often used to describe the original paint job of a survivor like this white/silver 1960 that was all-original except for seat covers. The owner was hoping for a cool $85k for this 283/230 4-speed car. For a little less scratch, this supercharged 2011 would be a nice survivor 50 years from now.

Nineteen sixty-nine was the second year for the C3. Standard motivation went from a 327 to a 350 with the 427 being optional, both with numerous states of tune available. These wire wheels, popular 40 years ago, add a touch of the exotic to this “Rough Rider.”

To this day, Callaway is the only non-GM company to have an RPO code.

Supercharged Callaway Corvettes were putting out over 600 horses by 2010. Note the grille detail.

In 1991, Callaway built 10 Series I Speedsters. This one has red leather with wool carpeting.

Only four of these Sunoco Racing Blue Daytona Corvettes were built by John Greenwood in 1981. Custom body panels and a turbo motor were but two features that came from the race car, allowing a 165 mph top speed.

After complaints about poor quality with the 1968 debut of the C3, things improved a bunch. There were 427s in five states of tune; this 390-horse four-barrel convertible was the lowest horsepower version.

In 1970, Chevrolet introduced the LT-1 350 for the Corvette and Camaro. In the Vette, it was rated at 370 horses – almost as much as the LS-5 454. It’s perhaps the greatest iteration of the small-block Chevy motor, but only about 5,000 were built in three years.

Black was the rarest color for 1968, with 708 built. This convertible originally had the standard 327/300 hooked up to a wide-ratio M20 4-speed and 3.55 gears, but now it has a warmed-over 350 with Kiesler overdrive five-speed. At the other end of the chrome-nosed Stingrays is this ’72 LS-5 454 convertible. Starting in 1973, Chevrolet gave the C3 its first facelift.

After returning from Vietnam in 1972, Hank Miller purchased this ’69 with a tad over 16,000 miles from his cousin for $3,400. It was equipped with the L71 427/435, M-21 close-ratio four-speed, 4.11 gears, and transistorized ignition. Painted Monaco Orange, it has received a few minor modifications that really set it off.

If the musician formerly known as Prince owned a Corvette, would it look like this?

The 1973 Stingray is unique because it had the new soft nose yet maintained the Kamm back from 1968-72. This one has received the wide-body modifications that the race cars had.

Corvette customizer Bill Silva modified 125 cars to look like the old Mako Shark show car. This ’76 is one of five short-tail cars.

This neat silver and red ’68 convertible thinks it’s a Testarossa.

The first year where the coupe outsold the convertible was 1969. The 350 was available in 300 and 350 horse versions.

There were a number of tuner Vettes at Carlisle that had this sharp black-out treatment.

Domed hoods on 1970-72 Corvettes meant it had either a 454 or the LT-1 350, but only the latter had these stripes. This ’71 lost 40 horsepower due to a cut in compression.

Up on stage were a few interesting cars, including a giveaway six-speed 1992 coupe with a mere 24,000 miles. But all eyes were on this 'invisible' 1965 Corvette, as it was the development mule for the 396 that would debut in the middle of the model year.

You probably wanted the giveaway car, but your child probably wanted the racing bed with working headlights.

GM engineers were on hand to talk about the development of everyone's favorite sports car.

Kerbeck, America’s largest volume Corvette dealer, had a huge tent with numerous new Corvettes for impulse-buyers. This 2013 ZR1 was discounted to $116,372.

Over the years, Owens-Corning sponsored several Corvettes for SCCA competition, including this L-88.

Callaway also had a rather large display to peddle their wares. Right next to it was GM’s display with several Corvettes in various states of dress.

The 1968 427 ZL-1 development engine was basically an L88 427 in aluminum dressing. Development began on August 2, 1967 and debuted for the 1969 model year. All experimental blocks had the casting code 0-294550 and were assembled in February 1968.

This 1966 Penske racer served as development for the L88 427 that was introduced a year later. It holds the distinction of being the first large-production car to win both Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring back-to-back.

Dana Chevrolet was famous for their 427 Camaros, so it’s not unusual for this performance dealership in California to have campaigned one of the 20 L88 Corvettes built in 1967. The motor was built by TRACO Engineering, then successfully raced by John Hill all around the West Coast.

The 427 Corvette is not exceptionally rare, despite what some people may think - 3,754 of the L71 435-horse version were built, for example. Black and red seems to be a favorite color combination for many, but it’s hard to fault this white/red convertible. This black/red coupe is one of the 20 L88 cars built and has only 11,000 miles. Which do you prefer?

Bought new at Williamson Chevrolet in Marietta, Ohio, this 1968 L88 has been a race car all its life.

In 1969, this was a black/black L88 from Queens, New York. Today, it’s a skeleton that shows everything that makes an L88 what it is.

The L89 option was not an engine in and of itself, but rather an option for a particular motor. In other words, if you wanted aluminum heads for your L71 427, you checked the L89 box on the order form. This unrestored coupe has 6,500 miles.

The ZR-2 racing package was only available in 1971 and included the LS6 454/425 (one of 188), M22 4-speed transmission, heavy duty power brakes, transistorized ignition, special springs and shocks, and front and rear sway bars. Of the 12 LS6s ordered with this package, only two were convertibles.

This couple were celebrating their wedding in a banquet hall when some guests checked to see what the hubbub was about. Everyone ran out in amazement, excited to see the Corvette buzz that was going on.