The Vette Dogs Blog

New 2009 ZR1 in the Flesh

POSTED BY Rob Ferretti, 22 October 2007 | PERMALINK

Got these pictures from Winding Road and Jalopnik. I am psyched to see this car in person $135k for a corvette its has to be a beast! There has never been much room for weight savings on corvettes so hopefully this car is going to be lighter and still have all the comforts of a corvette. With Ceramic brakes I hope they will finally shake those leaf springs and put a set of coil overs on...

John Force trys out Chevy

POSTED BY Rob Ferretti, 22 October 2007 | PERMALINK

I was at a recent event promoting Crest White Strips outside NYC where I was hired to autocross people around the Meadowlands parking lot in my corvette. John and Ashley Force (sponsored by Castrol Syntec) were also hired to be there and were floating around, just being famous for the TV cameras. After they were there for about 45 minutes one of the people working the event approached me and...

A few crazy commercials

POSTED BY , 10 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Vette Dog style!


When Patrick starts going through several stacks of video all in the same day, he can't help but show some of it off.

No geckos with British accents and no saluting guys that wear too much cologne... just highway patrolmen, failed drifts, off-road excursions and screaming tires.

Sounds like the perfect recipe for a Vette Dogs' commercial.

As he was eager to share,...

"The Twizzler Story"

POSTED BY , 03 July 2007 | PERMALINK

As in any epic tale, there’s a chapter that stands out among all others, bounded with sentiments of courage, strife and heroism.


Shame there wasn’t any of that during One Lap of America but the DC Crew did manage a gross one to tell! The daylight was coming to a close and the DC Crew was preparing to pull an all-nighter from Peublo, Colorado to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Steve Hardy, who was in...

"Does this thing get cable?"

POSTED BY , 02 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Granted, he wasn’t about to sneak up on anybody with that exhaust note… but Patrick’s 2002 Z06 always grabbed a second look by everyone during the One Lap trek, simply because of all the gizmos on the dashboard.

What you’re seeing on the dash of the DC Z is the Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS, Cobra CB radio and a Valentine V1 radar detector. All were life lines during One Lap of America,...