Our 1953 Commemorative Edition Corvette Story

    Chaz & Gael Cone, Atlanta, GA

Drivin' in the East Marietta Little League Parade

Saturday, March 22, 2002

OK.  So it's not quite the Rose Bowl Parade...

Good friend Ron Floyd called about getting fourteen Classic Glass Corvettes to participate in the East Marietta Little League season kickoff.  One of the East Marietta teams won the Little League World Series in 1983; they're getting that whole team back for a twenty-year reunion. Twenty years since their World Series win, fifty years of Corvette.  A stretch?  Maybe; but us Corvette types are always up for a PARADE!

Anyway, one player (now all about 32 years old) per Corvette convertible.  And an Air Force ROTC color guard.  And a gang of pickups with the 2003 East Marietta Little League teams in the beds.

The staging place was the BigK parking lot across from the Big Chicken in Marietta.

Here's a good idea:  Let's get a hundred 9 to 12 year old boys together in a parking lot with nothing for them to do for an hour -- and then let's bring some of THESE:

Can you say, "kids bouncing off the cars?"

They may just be little boys, but they like Corvettes just fine:

Oh, yes, and donuts, too:

Ron asked me to take the lead (I don't argue with Ron)!  This is me with Marc Pisciotta (one of the 1983 World Series Little Leaguers):

On the one mile drive to the ballpark, Mark took these two from his "seated on the back of the car" position:

Just in case anyone was inclined to forget that a 1983 East Marietta Little League team was World Champions:

All the kids piled out of the trucks:

And headed for the field for the opening ceremony:

These guys are celebrities; and celebrities autograph baseballs:

 

Here's Marc Pisciotta and his family (Note photographic principle: There's no way to get four people looking the same way at the same time):

And the team's names engraved in granite:

It was a GREAT Day for the kids, the '83 World Series champs -- and the Classic Glass Corvette folks!

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