Ok, I’ll bite. Here’s my Callaway story.
I’ve been a nearly life-long Corvette guy – we have had one in the family since I was 5 and I bought my first (a 1963 Convertible) when I was 18 – but I had very little exposure to Callaways until the late 1990s/early 2000s. By then I had owned several Corvettes (all of which are gone now) gravitating toward higher performance and lower production cars and was looking for something different.
I started looking into Callaways and stumbled on this forum, which I found to be a great source of learning about these unique cars, and I got totally hooked on the styling of the Aerobody. As I learned more about Callaways, I discovered the Speedsters. If I recall correctly, one of my first post on this forum was something along the lines of ‘Where are the Speedsters now?’.
Being a fan of high-performance, low production Corvettes, I set my sights on a 1991 Aerobody car, preferably a Series 500 car. On a family trip to the Santa Monica area, I went up to Corvette Mike’s in Tustin to look at a maroon ’91 Aerobody Series 500 Convertible. It was a beautiful car, except it had those awful C5 wagon wheels on it, so I held off to do some research around finding a set of Dymags. Although I wasn’t having much luck, I decided to pull the trigger on the ’91 anyway, but when I called back I found out it had been sold.
I made an offhand comment to the sales guy that I’d really like to find a Speedster, and to my surprise he said ‘let me call you back, I might know of one’. It worked out, and that is how I came to own Speedster 007 – that also happened to be a Series 500 car.
That car was a blast, but about as far from practical as you can get on 4 wheels, so I almost immediately renewed my search for a ’91 Aerobody car. I found a yellow car with low miles on it at an auction in Oklahoma City, and flew up to look at and hopefully bid – and I got to meet BoostedmaxPSI from the forum, who came to the auction also. Unfortunately, while the car looked awesome, this ended in failure as well because the auction attendee wasn’t paying attention and didn’t see or hear me trying to make a bid when the car sold. Missed again, but I talked to the buyer and told him that if he changed his mind to contact me.
About 3-4 months later, he did. I got an email from an address/name I didn’t recognize, that just said ‘Are you still interested in that car?’. It took me a couple of days to figure out what car it was about (with a little help from CC), so we worked out a price and I bought this one:
That’s basically my story of how I got in to Callaway Corvettes. Both of those cars have, unfortunately, moved on, and the 2012 B2K replaced them. I’ve had this one since new, and it still makes me smile every time I drive it.