Susan and I some time ago planned to visit our friends in Silverthorne, Colorado during the first two weeks of August.  This is ski country (Summit county) but we like it best in the summer.  At 9000 feet above sea level, the early morning temperatures were 38 – 40 degrees warming quickly to mid 70’s during the day with NO humidity.  This was a welcome break from the oppressive heat and humidity of south Louisiana.

Before the trip, we learned that there was going to be an all Corvette show that weekend in Frisco, a few miles away, and we were excited about that.  We toyed with the idea of driving our vette out there (1500 miles) instead of flying, but since we had cheap tickets we decided to fly this year and maybe drive out next year.

The show, named Vettes On The Rockies, was part of a weekend get together sponsored by the Looking Glass Corvette Association of Denver.  As it turned out, there were over 340 cars registered from 13 different states.  None were from Louisiana, although there was one claiming to be from Florida.  Events started on Thursday with registration and a welcome party.  On Friday they had a timed autocross event at the local high school parking area.  Saturday, they had a three hour poker run and rally from Summit County to Buena Vista and a dinner and dance that night.  Sunday was the finale with the show and shine car show in downtown Frisco.  Although we didn’t register, we did hang around to see what was going on and spent about 3 hours at the Sunday car show, meeting folks and taking pictures.  I wore my club shirt which generated several conversations about our club and where I was from.  It was also interesting to note that the show shirts and caps all had “Save the Wave” printed on them.

The setting for the show was along the main street of Frisco with mountain on all four sides, and encompassed about 6 city blocks of cars.  I counted over 300 corvettes at the show.  With the weather picture perfect, the setting was truly magnificent.  Somehow a corvette seems to shine a little more at 9000 feet (I guess the sun is a little closer to the earth).  Cars included a 1954 in really great shape and a 2003 Indianapolis Pace Car (suppose to be the actual car used).  There was a C5-R (it looked brand new), and a couple of C-5’s made to look like C-1’s, plus many more fine cars.  Below are some of the pictures we took.

Bob and Susan Himes