Greeting Corvette Friends! Happy 2024! For those of you who attended our December Christmas Party, “Oh what fun!” Everyone had a great time. Here’s our 2024 Highlands County Corvettes Schedule! January 27, 2024, at the Lake Placid American Legion, 11 AM to 2 PM. SPECIAL NOTE!!! On January 27, 2024, the Legion will be hosting […]
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Our 2022/2023 Corvette Car Show season is Coming to a Close
We have two more shows before our summer “It’s TOO HOT!” break. The April Show will be on April 25, 2023, from 11 am to 2 pm at the American Legion Post 25, on Rt. 27, in Lake Placid, Florida. And the last show for the season will be May 27, 2023, from 11 am […]
Highlands County Corvettes Memorial Day Weekend Car Show – SLIDE SHOW
Highlands County Corvettes Memorial Day Weekend 2022 Corvette Car Show Dateline: 5-31-22 – I hope you all had a happy Memorial Day weekend. Just a couple of short notes for now. If you are finding us online and would like to receive our e-mail updates, CLICK HERE. You will only receive e-mails from me (John […]
Highlands County Corvettes Car Show, April 23, 2022
Dateline: 5-4-22 – Our April 2022 Highlands County Corvettes Car Show at the Lake Placid American Legion was a delight. The day started out nearly cloudless and by showtime, a blanket of clouds kept temps in the upper 70s and it was breezy. A few times it was too breezy, but at least we weren’t […]
A FANTASTIC Trip to See the Royal Lipizzan Stallions!
Horse “POWER” of a Different Kind! Dateline: 5.1.22 – First of all, big thanks to Edde King for planning this destination event. Since we moved to Lake Placid in 2014 we’ve been hearing about the Royal Lipizzan Stallions, but life always seemed to get in the way. After watching several western-themed TV series, we were […]
Highlands County Corvettes Car Show, March 26, 2022
Dateline: 4.1.22 – We scored another PERFECT Florida weather day for our March Highlands County Corvettes Car Show. Days like that are why we choose to live here and why people from all around the world come here for the winter. We had an excellent turnout with 32 Corvettes, our best for this year. If […]
Highlands County Corvettes Attends the 2023 Z06 Dealer’s Tour at Stingray Chevrolet – Slide Show
If you have ever longed to be able to buy a near-factory-built Corvette race car, here you go! Dateline: 3.29.22 – After our weekly Corvette breakfast at Oscar’s Family Restaurant, in Sebring, Florida, a small contingent of Highlands County Corvettes members caravaned to Stingray Chevrolet, in Plant City, Florida to see the new C8 Z06 […]
Highlands County Corvettes Car Show, Feb. 26, 2022
Dateline: 3-5-22 – Unlike last month’s soggy show, the weather for our February Corvette Show was Florida Perfect! Ever since John started running the HCC Shows at the American Legion, the schedule has been consistent; the fourth Saturday of every month from October through into May, from 11 am to 2 pm. The only time […]
Highlands News -Sun Covered Our Soggy Corvette Show!
Highlands County Corvettes gets some unexpected, but very appreciated publicity! Dateline: 1.26.22 – What a pleasant surprise it was to open page E2 of the Highlands News-Sun, January 26, 2022, and find “January Corvette cruise-in” and there’s Jack Murphy’s 1981 Corvette, looking pretty good for a senior Vette on a cloudy day! To read the […]
Highlands County Corvettes Show, January 8, 2022
Neither rain, nor wind, nor chilly temps could keep the Corvette faithful away from a Highlands County Corvettes Car Show! Dateline: 1-24-22 – In the last nearly four years I have never seen a situation like what we faced early Saturday morning; a NASTY forecast with solid cloud cover, cool temps, no warming sunshine, drizzle, […]