Downtown Carlisle Comes Alive with Corvettes of All Eras

Annual Community Gathering Takes Place Saturday of Event Weekend

Downtown Carlisle Corvette Parade and Street Party

CARLISLE, PA – Live music and America’s Sports Car, the Corvette, invade downtown Carlisle for the ever-popular annual Downtown Carlisle Corvette Parade and Street Party.  Corvettes at Carlisle itself takes place August 23-25 at the Carlisle PA Fairgrounds and the parade, presented by the Downtown Carlisle Association, is held on Saturday, August 24.

The parade starts at 7 p.m. and includes live music and over 400 Corvettes spanning the history of the brand.  In addition, special guests such as the Corvette engineers will be part of the free fun too.  Showcased this year will be the all-new 2014 Corvette Stingray.  Not only will the Stingray be a spotlight car onsite during Corvettes at Carlisle weekend, it will also be one of the cars leading the way downtown.

Once parked in and around the square, drivers of the cars and fans of the brand will flood the streets, revel in the automotive excitement and enjoy live music from “That Band.”  The group returns to Carlisle for the second consecutive year and features a great array of cover music.  Last year, people were dancing in the streets along with the sounds of “That Band” and everyone who comes to the parade can expect the same type of fun.

Registration for the parade may be done online right now as part of an additional charge to the Fun Field registration or onsite Friday of event weekend.  A Saturday registration session is scheduled too; however, that is based solely on the availability of spaces within the parade field.

“Every town in America wishes for an event as popular and iconic as Corvettes at Carlisle," said Glenn White, Executive Director of the Downtown Carlisle Association.  "The DCA is proud to work with Carlisle Events and Corvette to showcase these American-made classics every year.  With over 400 vehicles downtown annually, our businesses benefit and the Corvette owners benefit by allowing us to show them great Carlisle hospitality."

“The Downtown Carlisle Corvette Parade has truly become a staple for our event each year,” said event manager Lance Miller.  “We’re thrilled to work with our local community and it’s just fun to flood the downtown of our local hometown with Corvettes.  Not only do the participants of the parade have a memorable time, but the local community enjoys watching the festivities provided,” continued Miller.  “When people ask me what activities they should do while visiting Corvettes at Carlisle, I always mention the Downtown Carlisle Corvette Parade.”

Meet Peter Brock During Corvettes at Carlisle Weekend

Legendary Author, Designer and Racer to Attend Event for the First Time Ever

July 2013  
CARLISLE, PA – As Corvettes at Carlisle celebrates 50 years of the 1963 Stingray and 60 years overall of the Corvette, it's only fitting that the best all-Corvette-themed event in the world welcomes someone who played a crucial role in the design of Stingray.  At this year's event, August 23-25 at the Carlisle PA Fairgrounds, Corvette enthusiasts can meet the one and only Peter Brock, one of the driving forces behind what is now known as the ’63 “split window” Corvette Stingray.

Brock will be onsite promoting his new book, “Corvette Stingray: Genesis of an American Icon” and will be meeting fans and signing autographs all weekend.  The book reveals the elaborate and complicated history and secret origins of the legendary “split window” car.  In 1957 Brock was one of the youngest designers ever hired by GM Styling and throughout the book, gives automotive enthusiasts his revealing insider’s look into what it was like working directly under GM’s famed executive team of Bill Mitchell, Harley Earl, Zora Arkus-Duntov and Ed Cole.  These men allowed Brock to be creative and visionary, all while risking their careers by flaunting corporate mandate to create one of America’s most iconic designs.  The book isn't just a story for Stingray owners but all serious students of automotive history.

In addition to being a famed writer, Brock is the namesake of BRE, or Brock Racing Enterprises.  He has not only designed cars for companies like Hino, Toyota and Triumph, but he has also started his own race team.  Brock literally put the Japanese automotive industry into the history books with his famed team of BRE Datsuns, winning two C Production National Championships with the 240Z and two 2.5 Trans-Am Championships with driver John Morton and his beloved BRE Datsun 510s.  In addition to the book, Brock will bring his decades of knowledge to Carlisle to "talk shop" and more.

Along with Brock, guests can meet the Corvette Engineering team along with special guest Dave McLellan.  McLellan was the chief engineer for Corvette from 1975 until his retirement in 1992.  Having joined GM in 1959 following his graduation from college, McLellan took over from the famed Zora Arkus-Duntov and actually worked side by side with him until Zora retired.  McLellan is best known as the man behind the C4 Corvette, of which many will be onsite during Corvettes at Carlisle.