Personal Reserve Collection Offered For Sale at Auction... Fred & Terry Michaelis offered forty-two Corvettes from their Personal Collection for auction at Mecum's recent Bloomington Gold auction. All had been hand picked and many have been stored or displayed for many years.  Many were Bloomington Gold, Bloomington SURVIVOR®, Bloomington BENCHMARK® Certified, or received an NCRS Award. "These extraordinary Corvettes were purchased because we liked them! They are among the best we've owned and they carry the world's best credentials. Unfortunately, we're losing 30,000 sq. ft. of storage space where the collection has been housed. Due to business requirements and inventory of over 200 Corvettes, business inventory storage must come before our collection." -- Terry & Fred Michaelis Many of these cars went across the block and did not come back, a few did. Email terry@proteamcorvette.com with any post-auction questions or comments.

Bloomington Gold Special Collection... ProTeam's 1968 Corvette L-88 Race Car was on display at the invitation only 2008 Bloomington Gold Special Collection at the Bloomington Gold Show in St. Charles, Illinois at the Pheasant Run Resort. This L-88 was then offered for sale at the Mecum Bloomington Gold auction on Saturday, June 28th.

NCRS Motor City Regional... Novi, Michigan was the setting for the 2008 NCRS Motor City Regional on May 16th and 17th. Six Corvettes from the Proteam Classic Corvette Collection vied for the NCRS Top Flight award. They are as follows: (A) 1953 Corvette, VIN #268, garnered a 2nd Flight award due to losing 85 points for Zora Duntov's autograph (1/2" high x 2" long) on the left hand door by the mirror and operational issues (primarily a fuse) where it lost 175 points. Repair and add these lost points back in and you have a Top Flight 1953 Corvette, (B) 1954 Corvette, VIN #2804, garnered a 2nd Flight award missing Top Flight by 7 tenths of a percent. A restoration battery and/or minor operation issues brings this car to Top Flight status, (C) 1970 Corvette, VIN #6466, garnered a 2nd Flight for over restoration (too nice) missing Top Flight by 1.7 percent, (D) 1970 Corvette, VIN #5774, missed Top Flight by 6 tenths of a percent with easy to fix operational issues, (E) 1974 Corvette, VIN #33830, garnered a Top Flight, and our (F) 1978 Corvette, VIN #31533, garnered a Top flight. Word to the wise: Prior to showing your Corvette at an NCRS event, pay close attention to the operational check sheet as each failure will cost you 25 points.

Documentation and your old Corvette... What is Documentation: Documentation is generally referred to as factory and dealer delivery paperwork, ie: window sticker, tank sticker, shipper copy, warranty book/protecto-plate, dealer invoice, dealer bill of sale, owners manual packet.
FACT ONE: Most older (1953 to 1981) Corvettes do not have any form of documentation. A Corvette with documentation is the anomaly!
FACT TWO: Bloomington Gold and NCRS judges do not judge documentation and documentation is not required to have your Corvette judged, other than a title and proof of insurance. These judges are generally quite experienced and judge by a standard and that standard I refer to as "The Duck Test" being; If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... it most likely is a duck!!! Sometimes the evidence of the "The Duck Test" is so overwhelming, especially when performed by the truly experienced, it replaces the real need for documentation (paperwork).
FACT THREE: Sadly, the unreasonable and silly thinking that a Corvette without documentation has little value has created a covert cottage industry of entities and/or persons that make/print/create fake aged documentation.
CAVEAT EMPTOR: If documentation is a requirement leading to your purchase of an older Corvette, please hire an expert to affirm that the documentation is, in fact, real and not something that was generated to feed that silly notion that a Corvette must have documentation.
WHO TO CONTACT FOR DOCUMENTATION AFFIRMATION: CCAS (Classic Corvette Legitimacy Affirmation, LLC), 318 Summit Str., Boonville, NY 13309 • ccas4@aol.com • CCAS, LLC will evaluate certain specific forms of documentation by personal inspection. Please inquire for details.
Author: Terry Michaelis, terry@proteamcorvette.com

ProTeam and Corvette America Develop Banner/Link Relationship... Corvette America, one of the largest Corvette aftermarket parts manufactures and supply companies, has joined in a relationship with ProTeam Corvette to bring awareness to each other's niche business, ie: Corvette parts (Corvette America) and Corvettes for sale (ProTeam). For more than 30 years, Corvette America has produced aftermarket Corvette parts in Milroy, Pennsylvania. They offer a complete selection of components, original interiors, exclusive production of 1963-1966 Knockoff and 1967 Bolt-On Wheels, a full line of Corvette Car Covers, and much more. Being affiliated with and literally linked to Corvette America is a no-brainer for ProTeam and we believe the same for Corvette America. ProTeam houses the world's largest Corvette collection and understands the dedication to the hobby and our customers that it takes to be the best so look for Corvette America at ProTeamCorvette.com and check out ProTeam at CorvetteAmerica.com.

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