Cars of Technology

A huge sigh of relief swept though the classroom at the 2 nd Annual Concours College held in Miami Florida when it was explained that a Porsche Club of America concours judge will not inspect the inside of your tailpipe. The bad news was that just about everything else is fair game, including the backside of your brake pedal.  Judging is really a game. You present your car to the judges as the most pristine Porsche in three adjoining states and then a PCA judge will attempt to prove you wrong. The PCA mantra is “I will find dirt on this car.” PCA judges will find dirt in places that you never even knew existed. In an effort to help beleaguered Porsche owners the Miami region of the PCA runs an annual Concours College. Some very experienced judges take the group through the judging process with a Power Point presentation. They then proceed to judge a car to demonstrate how it is done on a real Porsche.  A word of caution here. You should never volunteer your car for this infor...

The Callaway B2K Option was a GM Option GM contracted with Callaway Cars back in the 1980s  for some very special Corvettes that you could buy at your local dealer. GM even covered these Callaway Corvette with a full GM warranty. This had never been done before. GM would never do it again either. Things may have gotten a little  confusing for both Callaway and GM but the cars they produced may well be one of the most desirable C4 Corvettes you can own. The 1984 Corvette made no pretense of being fast. The Corvette team simply borrowed the engine left over from the 1982 Corvette. Dave McLellan and his Corvette team knew this wasn’t enough. They knew the C4 Corvette had to be the fastest car on the planet. The only question was how this could be accomplished. While the engineers at GM Powertrain were trying to figure out how to make the Corvette faster Reeves Callaway was up in Old Lyme Connecticut trying to figure out how to make an Alfa Romeo go faster. Actually he had already...