About Us
Corvette Racing is now the combined efforts of the Greg Carter family of Kelowna B.C. consisting of Greg and Patti and Greg's son Aaron and Patti's girls Lindsay and Amber.
Our starting years
As a young lad growing up within a Family owned Pontiac Buick GM dealership and the Knox Mountain Hillclimb literally just down the road the quest for car racing starter early.
Our first start at Knox was in 1969 with a 1961 MGA with a 283 Corvette engine and 4speed transmission and a narrowed GM rear end with a 4:11 post unit.
A very interesting combination to say the least.
While Knox was and continues to be a challenge even to the present day, the BUG for road racing had bitten and it was off to Westwood for our first road race driver training course with SCCBC. This allowed us to get our National Race Licence which was issued by the CASC in those years (now CACC).
The First Road Race car
As I had a 1968 Mini Cooper "S" street car that we used for Auto Cross it was a logical choice. There was a wrecked cooper s body sitting behind the Morrison Auto Shop and we soon found out it had gone end over end on the race track at Kent Wash (now Pacific Raceway) with this as a start the other "front half" came from a Austin 850 wagon that we had on the Carter Motors lot. Just open the doors and cut across the front windshield posts and across the floor. Well it sounded easy!
Still hard to believe how straight that car tracked when it was done.
With this car we raced Knox Mountain Hillclimb in Kelowna, Westwood in B.C., Speedway Park in Edmonton both of these last ones are now just a memory. Lost to Development!
End of round one!
In 1972 still with the Mini we were running in the Players Challenge Series in the West. In October we got the chance to take the car out to Mosport for the year end competition. There were three of us from Kelowna and Morrison Auto. A Purple MGB driven by Neil McGill, a Purple Cooper S owned and driven by Lew Nielsen (Vernon) and yours truly with the Red White Red Cooper S.
Mosport turned out to be an exciting challenge and disappointment for all of us as we were all DNF's.
Round one came to an end due to a challenging career in aviation as a pilot.
And we thought racing was expensive!