Today we are going to look at some photos Bill Locke sent from the 4th Bloomington Gold Charlotte event. The event is held at the Rick Hendrick’s Motorsports Campus in Charlotte, NC. On October 11 and 12, spectators enjoyed tours of the Hendrick Car Museum as well as the Gold Collection Tribute to Jim Perkins. There was the usual certification judging and the Queen City Corvette Club Car show.
Bob Cook will be bringing us extensive coverage of the event in a future edition of Vette Vues Magazine.
First, let’s look at GM’s display
By now, many of your readers have seen the new Corvette as Chevrolet has been taking it on tour across the U.S. The new mid-engine Corvette has a 6.2-liter V-8 making 490 horsepower. Chevy brought a white 2020 C8 pre-production mid-engine Corvette. The Arctic White Vette’s interior was the Tension w/ Twilight Blue Dipped. We want to note that the Blue is only available in 3LT. There are six interior color choices: Jet Black, Sky Cool Gray, Adrenaline Red, Natural/Natural Dipped, Tension w/ Twilight Blue Dipped, and Morello Red Dipped. [The two-tone design (dipped) is also only offered on the 3LT option.]
There are 12 exterior color choices, and you can see them on
this page https://vette-vues.com/2020-c8-corvette-colors/
Gold Collection photos… A Tribute to Jim Perkins at the 4th Bloomington Gold Charlotte
Our first car is the 1988 Corvette Challenge Series Racer, S/N 13449 and is the inaugural SCCA Series Champion. 1988 was the first year for the Corvette Challenge Series and Chevrolet built fifty-six street-legal Corvettes for the race series.
Our next Corvette on display at the Bloomington Gold Charlotte event only has 798 miles on it
1993 Corvette CERV4b Pre-production Design Study
Our next car, the CERV 4b – C5 Design Prototype Vehicle, is part of the Yager family’s My Garage museum.
The name CERV IV was the official name of the test vehicle that the GM’s Corvette group secretly contracted in 1993 to build as a test car for the 1997 Corvette.
“The Corvette group directed
the project, with Chevrolet paying for it. General Motors’ management was not
told about it, for fear that they would cancel it. The Corvette team developed
the CERV IV in 90 days in early 1993, got approval to build the car around April
of that year and eventually turned the model into the C5, which arrived in
1997. CERV IV was the only CERV designed with a front-mounted engine.” –
Source – Mid America Motorworks
Next is a 1996 Corvette Grand Sport pedal car, purchased at a National Corvette Museum fund-raiser by Eugene Anderson, signed by Jim Perkins, and donated back to the NCM for permanent display.
There were ten special display boards produced by Hendrick Motorsports highlighting the 30 year General Motors career of Jim Perkins, a GM Vice President, and Chevrolet’s General Manager through 1996…
The Bloomington Gold Certification Corvettes were presented for judging in front of Mr. Hendrick’s Heritage Center collection building. Hendrick Motorsports is located in Concord, North Carolina, one mile from Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The campus features state-of-the-art facilities and technology, which the organization’s four NASCAR Cup Series teams employ in preparation for race day.
Hendrick Motorsports welcomes visitors at no charge. Also open to the public is the Hendrick Motorsports Museum & Team Store, showcasing the many years of Hendrick Motorsports history. You can visit their website to see their hours.
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