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Automotive Lifestyle
VINTAGE: ’62 Corvette All About Winning
The award-winning veteran of concours competitions is being auctioned at Barrett-Jackson by an owner who loves trailer queens.
Competitive Corvette owner Dave Brewer keeps his award-winning sports car company inside Barrett-Jackson's main tent. (Photo: Bob Golfen)
The smiling guy standing next to the pretty ’62 Corvette, the one displaying all the awards, has something he wants everybody to understand.
Dave Brewer wants you to know he’s a cheerful perfectionist, and his little-red Corvette (Lot #1262) coming up for sale Saturday at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale is a prime example of his competitive push.
“Basically, this car has walked the talk,” said Brewer, an Orlando, Fla., retiree.
The Vette is certainly a stunning car, painted a rich Roman Red and painstakingly restored to time-warp original condition, just the way it rolled out of the factory, right down to its “dog-dish” hubcaps on steel wheels.
It’s a highly desirable fuel-injected car, its V8 putting out 360 horsepower through a four-speed manual transmission. The wheels are special wide factory originals, rare and valuable these days.
But that’s just the beginning of what makes it great. Brewer’s Corvette has won just about every honor a Corvette can win, primarily from the esteemed National Corvette Restorers Society, including the coveted NCRS Duntov Award, the difficult NCRS Performance Verification Award, Bloomington Gold Certificate and the Corvette Nationals Gold Concours Award.
Brewer’s main interest in car collecting is winning prizes, he said, an unabashed love of competitions between perfectly restored cars to determine which one is the most perfect.
“I really love regional and national competitions,” he said. “I love No. 1, trailer-queen cars. My garage is filled with No. 1 cars. ”
The No. 1 category, by the way, designates a thoroughly restored car brought back to original condition with no regard for cost or the rarity of correct parts. The Corvette – restored frame off by the Nabors Brothers of Houston – has been brought to a state in which a concours judge can study it with a magnifying glass and not find any flaws or incorrect bits.
The Corvette’s bevy of prizes was won mainly last year during a nationwide tour of regional and national Corvette concours events, Brewer said, in which his car roared to the top of the competition.
“I spent 43 nights traveling 14,000 miles,” he said, adding that he towed the Vette in an enclosed trailer. “I worked my tail off for this thing.”
Dave Brewer wants you to know he’s a cheerful perfectionist, and his little-red Corvette (Lot #1262) coming up for sale Saturday at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale is a prime example of his competitive push.
“Basically, this car has walked the talk,” said Brewer, an Orlando, Fla., retiree.
The Vette is certainly a stunning car, painted a rich Roman Red and painstakingly restored to time-warp original condition, just the way it rolled out of the factory, right down to its “dog-dish” hubcaps on steel wheels.
It’s a highly desirable fuel-injected car, its V8 putting out 360 horsepower through a four-speed manual transmission. The wheels are special wide factory originals, rare and valuable these days.
But that’s just the beginning of what makes it great. Brewer’s Corvette has won just about every honor a Corvette can win, primarily from the esteemed National Corvette Restorers Society, including the coveted NCRS Duntov Award, the difficult NCRS Performance Verification Award, Bloomington Gold Certificate and the Corvette Nationals Gold Concours Award.
Brewer’s main interest in car collecting is winning prizes, he said, an unabashed love of competitions between perfectly restored cars to determine which one is the most perfect.
“I really love regional and national competitions,” he said. “I love No. 1, trailer-queen cars. My garage is filled with No. 1 cars. ”
The No. 1 category, by the way, designates a thoroughly restored car brought back to original condition with no regard for cost or the rarity of correct parts. The Corvette – restored frame off by the Nabors Brothers of Houston – has been brought to a state in which a concours judge can study it with a magnifying glass and not find any flaws or incorrect bits.
The Corvette’s bevy of prizes was won mainly last year during a nationwide tour of regional and national Corvette concours events, Brewer said, in which his car roared to the top of the competition.
“I spent 43 nights traveling 14,000 miles,” he said, adding that he towed the Vette in an enclosed trailer. “I worked my tail off for this thing.”
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