January 28th, 1990 I went to Phoenix AZ to teach Corvette Specialist Classes.  I came home April 8th, 1990.  After I got to Phoenix Grace Inn, a few days later the Morrison truck and crew showed up at the hotel.  They had just broken the 24 Hour Endurance Record.  Not many people knew they were trying to do this.  Jim Perkins from GM and a lot of magazine people showed up.  I had known Tommy Morrison when he was doing the Escort 24-Hour races and Challenge races.

All 1991 cars left the plant with a 24-Hour Endurance Record label on the rear glass.

When I retired January 29th, 1993, (after 30 years), Mobil Racing and Tommy Morrison wanted me to travel with Wayne Carter taking a Sebring car, and the Record Run car all over the US to promote Corvettes and Mobil Oil.

I joined Wayne at the Knoxville TN car show in March 1993.  Chris and I got there about midday Friday.  It started snowing, and snowing, and snowing!!!  It quit snowing the next morning with a total of 19" of snow....  They were not accustomed to this much snow and it shut down the whole town for 3 days.  Wayne and I finally got out of Knoxville on Tuesday.  It took 10 hours to get to Atlanta due to the road condition.

When we got to Sebring FL for the 12 hours of racing, we put the Record Car and 88 Sebring Car on display in the infield.  It started raining, and raining, and raining!!!  They had to shut the race down due to 6" of water on the track.......  That was a first for the track.  We finally got everything dried out.

Then we were told we were to go to the Kansas City Expo Corvette Show.  We headed North and arrived in Kansas City at the Howard Johnson Hotel.  After checking in, I told Wayne the people in the parking lot and lobby looked like a motorcycle club.  We found out that night on the TV news that they were having the 1st National Street Gang Peace Summit meeting in our hotel......  This tour starting with 19" of snow wasn't looking good.  We moved to a different hotel the next day.  After the show we were told to go to a show in Brookings SD, John Heinnicy's home town.

After arriving in Brookings we unloaded the two cars and put them in the Chevrolet dealership's show windows for the show the next day.  We checked into the Holiday Inn next to the dealership.  A storm came up with a lot of rain and wind.  After the storm was over, Wayne and I went back to check on the Record Car and the 88 Sebring car.  We found the entire front plate glass windows were blown out, along with our Mobil Oil displays.  The Record Car didn't seem damaged too much; but, the 88 Sebring car was covered with broken glass.  We had just had a tornado go through!!!  I thought, "What a trip!!!"  The local Corvette club put plywood over the windows and cleaned up as much as they could.  We had the show the next day.......

After the Brookings SD show we headed to the San Diego CA Expo show.  NO, we did not have an earth quake in CA....  I was expecting one!!!

It's now the middle of May '93.  On the way back from CA Wayne took me to Fort Stockton TX, and I got to ride around the 7.7 mile track; but, not in a Corvette just a van.  I can imagine going around that track at 190+ MPH....