Harchelroad Motors-Imperial plans to attend the Chadron Corvette Show in Chadron Nebraska July 10th. Plan on seeing GREAT LOOKING Callaway Corvettes and Callaway Camaro’s as well as the great people of the Harchelroad Motors Crew!

Visit www.harchelroadmotors.com for more information or find them on Facebook!

Don’t forget about the 7th Annual Chase County Corvette Classic on August 21st. With great people, tons of great looking Corvettes, and more you can’t miss this show! Over 250 Corvettes attended last year along!

But wait theres more………

You have to attend “Track Days” 2010 at Motorsports Park Hastings on June 18th-19th. With professional track driving school instructors and Corvettes and Camaros for your pleasure you can’t leave sad! Visit www.harchelroadmotors.com for registration and a schedule of events.

The 2011 Chevrolet Camaro was recently listed by Car and Driver as “1 of 25″ Cars WORTH waiting for! The momentum for Camaro continues to build upon the success of the Coupe released last April. Camaro sales continue to grow and are still outpacing the Mustang and Challenger. Harchelroad Motors has seen Camaro sales build each month even during the winter months. Expect to see the Camaro Convertible well before 2011 and in the range of $28,000 to $40,000.

Read the story at the following link: http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q1/2011_chevrolet_camaro_convertible-feature

You can order your 2011 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible from Harchelroad Motors, Inc. of Imperial or Wauneta Nebraska. Call us at (308) 882-4295 or visit us online at www.harchelroadmotors.com

Harchelroad Motors Sponsored events are just getting started for the 2010 Year! Though many small and quickly well laid out get-togethers will arise here shortly you can count on two events that are already on the calendar. First in the pipeline is Track Days – held at Motorsport Park Hastings. This two day event at the Track will be one you can’t miss! Motorsport Park Hastings is a 2.17 Mile Track with over 7 turns. What a great place to learn to drive your Corvette or Camaro. June 18th & 19th are two fully packed days of fun including classroom instruction and driving time with instructors. Don’t miss out on the Ride-A-Longs with Harchelroad Motors Staff in the Callaway Corvettes! They’ll even let you drive one if you’re ready for the BEST experience ever in a sports car!

Next on the list is the 7th Annual Chase County Corvette Classic! For the past six years Harchelroad Motors has sponsored this amazing celebration. Last year was a record setter with over 240 Corvettes and 10 Camaro’s in attendance. This year will be even bigger as 300+ Corvettes are expected to show. Don’t miss out the free BBQ with pre-registration which doesn’t cost anything! Come help us celebrate a great year with our many friends and their great looking Corvettes.

For more information about each event sponsored by Harchelroad Motors check out our website at www.harchelroadmotors.com Also don’t miss the great happenings of the Chase County Fair such as the CCR Concert and Rodney Atkins.

Harchelroad Motors recently visited Omaha Nebraska to attend World of Wheels at the Qwest Center, where they exhibitied Callaway Cars. During the four days spent at W.O.W. many thousands of people spent time visiting with Sid & Dillon Harchelroad and were shocked at the quality, refinement, and great looks of the Callaway Camaro and Callaway Corvette on hand. In fact many visitors had to stop by twice just to get a better look at the Callaway Products. Not only were these two Callaway’s present, but there was an original 1987 Callaway Twin Turbo directly to our West owned by the Bartels family. Off to the North was a 2010 Callaway Corvette Grand Sport SC606 Convertible, in fact it was the very “1st” Callaway to ever be delivered at the Museum in Bowling Green.

Most notably though was the fact that the Callaway Corvette SC606 and Callaway Camaro SC572 caught the eye of an unexpected visitor. There were many notable people in attendance of this years World of Wheels; Bankers, Corporate Executives, Politicians, Business Owners, and others alike, but none probably as prominent as one Celebrity. The popularity of this Celebrity is just phenomenal, he is known World Wide by adults and children, and he lives in the most unusual place known to man. We can all figure out who he is simply by hearing these words “Oh, who lives in a Pineapple under the sea?” “Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!” Yeah you guessed it Sponge Bob Square Pants stopped buy to check out our great looking Callaway Cars, infact he even decided to buy one. Check out the pictures below to see which Callaway Product he decided to take home with him.

For $11,500, This Could Be The ZR-1 For You

(Story from Jalopnik.com)

C4 is a plastic explosive with a detonation velocity of 18,000 mph. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a C4 Corvette, and its Lotus designed LT-5 engine makes punching the gas pedal nearly as explosive.

There was something hinky going on with yesterday’s 1999 Firehawk. The price seemed extremely low to everyone who didn’t already hate the F-body for some past transgression, and the spamtacular ad got pulled before we had a chance to verify it was for real. Despite that, the 402-whp bird of prey would have feathered the nest of 60% of you, giving Nice Price a four-peat this week. Phew, there’s got to be some cars out there that are saddled with a burdensome price tag! And perhaps today’s car will be one of those.

When somebody at GM raised the idea of buying the British cottage industry poster child Lotus, he or she probably spun tales of Formula One victories and adding lightness. Well, the purchase did add lightness to GM’s coffers, and when they went to appraise their new acquisition, what they found was a company still reeling from the time and investment put into the DeLorean seven years earlier- forcing Lotus to postpone development of their own products.

Despite that shock, and while the purchase was more a boon to Lotus – opening up GM’s vast parts bins to the tiny car maker – the bigger company benefited as well. One of those benefits is the subject of today’s rumination.

This 1991 Corvette ZR-1 represents from the second year of ZR-1 production, and carries the C4 refresh styling shared with all Vettes that year. What made the ZR-1 special was its Mercury Marine-built engine. The all-aluminum LT-5 shared bore centers with the iron block L-98, but nothing else. At 349 cubic inches, the LT-5 employed double overhead cams and a complicated intake system – both designed by Lotus – to make an astounding for the time 375-bhp. While that might not seem like much in a world of 300-hp V6 Camaros and 1001-hp Bugattis, it was enough back then to give the ZR-1 seven FIA speed records.

The ZR-1 wasn’t just a straight line whore, as its suspension had also been breathed on by the magical handling elves at Lotus. With a white exterior and a gray cockpit, this ZR-1 has handled nearly 190,000 miles. The seller, who is also the car’s original owner, lists a number of new parts, including a radiator and a set of Bilsteins, stuff you might expect in a car of this age and mileage. Other than that, he notes that the old school A/C does more damage to the environment than to cabin heat, so that would likely need to be repaired and upgraded, especially if sweat isn’t a good look on you. There’s also an oil leak (aluminum? Lotus? Go figure) but those are the only major issues it has or that he’s willing to divulge.

The car does come with both tops, as well as the kind of crappy interior that only GM could have built in the nineties. Flimsy, oversized knobs and chicklet-sized buttons wobble around in poorly fitting surrounds that are all turning various shades of ass, and the panel gaps are wide enough to be Madonna’s dental work. But twist the key and plant a foot and that’ll all rattle into insignificance as the ZR-1 demonstrates why it was once the fastest car GM had ever produced. Zero to sixty times were in the four and a half second range, and the top speed’s an honest to Zora Arkus-Duntov 180 miles per hour.

It was also the most expensive car GM had built, coming in at nearly double the cost of a base Corvette. Chalk that up to the hand-built nature of the exotic motor, and all the sub-contracted work. But, despite the nose-bleed original cost of entry, and the limited production numbers – this is one of 6,940 cars – this ZR-1 can be had for less than the cost of a Yaris. And unlike the Toyota, the Vette’s acceleration is intended! Okay, that was a cheap shot, but still the seller is asking $11,500 for what was once the top of GM’s entire U.S. line up.

So, what do you think? Is $11,500 a deal for an explosive C4? Or, do you think ZR-1 too many zeros in that price?

You decide