David and Judy’s Senior Moment
The Delivery
As of Monday April 16, 2001 at 9:03AM CDT- IT WAS READY! Parked on the Museum floor:
First picture by Nancy Harkness from the National Corvette Museum Web Cam – Delivery #2
We arrived at the Museum at 8:00 AM CDT on Tuesday April 17, 2001:
We took fantastic behind-the-scenes Corvette plant tour, then had a great behind-the-scenes Museum tour
At 10:26AM (Central Daylight Time) we first saw the car:
at 12:25PM CDT we were getting a thorough briefing from Corvette Museum Delivery Team Member Karen Akers on the features of the car:
at 1:43PM CDT the car’s “15 hours” of fame as a Museum centerpiece ended and it was moved outside:
by 2:00PM CDT we were posing for the Official Picture:
at 2:14PM CDT we were loading the car and by 2:18 we were on our way:
A lot of folks did a great job of capturing the pics – THANKS to all!!!!
2005-09-06 – Four and a half years after our Museum Delivery, I found this list of all the deliveries the same day as ours. The info was accessed on the ZR1NET web site:
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
10:00 a.m.
Art and Jan Wollpert
Elk Grove Village, IL
2001 bowling green Corvette coupe
Woodfield Chevrolet Schaumburg, IL
David and Judy Palmeter
Fort Wayne, IN
2001 white Corvette coupe
Guests: Dave & Sharon White
Kelley Chevrolet Inc. Ft. Wayne, IN
2:00 p.m.
Robert Maxwell (plant tour only-picking up car on Friday, April 20 at C5 Bash)
Horseshoe Bay, TX
2001 black Corvette Z06
Guests: Aubrey Poss, Joe Poss, Tom Martin
Capitol Chevrolet Austin, TX
John Nykiel, Jr. (no plant tour)
Matteson, IL
2001 black Corvette convertible
Guest: his father – John Nykiel, Sr.
Apple Chevrolet Tinley Park, IL
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