Corvette Expo Spring 2020

Welcome to the Corvette Expo!

We are dedicating this edition to Blan “The Man” Benton. Blan has been producing the Corvette Expo Magazine since its inception. Regrettably, Blan passed away last November due to cancer.

[William Blan Benton age 69 of Knoxville went home to be with the Lord on Friday, November 29, 2019. Preceded in death by parents Lee Roy and Lillie Mae Benton. Survived by his loving wife of 44 years Debra Benton; daughter Kristie Benton (Joe Stafford); his heart and soul was his grandchildren Zachary, Eli Kody Blan, and Natalie; brother James Benton (Susan); special friends Byron Cooper, Mike Dunn, Ron Rector, Jack Manis, Debbie Redmond and many more from Beaver Brook Country Club and the Corvette community. Blan worked at PCA for over 50 years. He was an avid golfer and served on the board of directors of Beaver Brook Country Club. He was the show chairman for the Corvette Expo for many years and loved his Vettes. Blan had an immense love for the Vols and would tell you he bleeds orange and was at every game. ]

My name is Cajun Graham and I look forward to meeting each and every one of you. I hope to honor Blan’s legacy and continue to bring a quality magazine to such an amazing community! Taking on this project I have already learned so much and have enjoyed hearing just how much Blan has touched many of your lives!

▪ BLAN WITH HIS DAUGHTER KRISTIE AT HIS FAVORITE PLACE ON EARTH ▪

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March 20-21

Event

Schedule

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EXPO OPENS TO PARTICIPANTS AND VENDORS ONLY • 8:00AM

SWAP MEET & SALES CORRAL OPEN TO PUBLIC • 9:00AM

PARK‘N’SHOW IN OUTSIDE LOT, SHOW CARS ON DISPLAY INSIDE. MEET & GREET [DANIELLE & TENILLE] • 9AM-4PM

PARK’N’SHOW AWARDS AT THE DJ TRAILER • 3:30PM

The Corvette Expo is a Production of MCS Promotions • Knoxville, TN show dj gary england. spinning tunes stop by & meet danielle moinet & tenille dashwood and get your free poster

CORVETTE DRAGON CRUISE THE SMOKIES LEAVES LECONTE CENTER FROM THE CORVETTE PARKING LOT • 4:30PM BUILDING AND SHOW,LOT SECURE • 6:00PM

friday, march 20: 9AM-6pm

EXPO OPENS TO PARTICIPANTS AND VENDORS ONLY • 8:00AM SWAP MEET & SALES CORRAL OPEN TO PUBLIC • 9:00AM

PARK‘N’SHOW, JUDGED COMPETITION SHOW AND HORSEPOWER & HOT RODS INSIDE. MEET & GREET [DANIELLE & TENILLE] • 9AM-4PM

PARK’N’SHOW AWARDS AT THE DJ TRAILER • 4PM SHOW AWARDS IN THE GREENBRIER ROOM • 5PM

saturday, march 21: 9AM-5pm

www.etmotorgear.com 865-671-3000 | 866-7ET-TEES ON THE COVER

ET Motorgear is proud to be the official apparel sponsor for the 2020 Corvette Expo. We invite you to stop by our trailer or visit us online at www.etmotorgear.com to purchase your event Tees.

The LeCONTE CENTER at Pigeon Forge

COMMERCIAL VENDORS INSIDE VENDORS

A & R TIRE OH

AFFORDABLE LIFTS TN

APSIS USA NY

B ROD OR CUSTOM TN

BACK, STEVE TN

BAD BOY VETTES CUSTOMS TX

BEAR CREEK FASHION NC

BEATS-UM-ALL TN

BEST LITTLE HEMP HOUSE TN

CLASSY CREATIONS TN

CLOCKS by ROGER TN

D&M RESTORATION SC

DIAMOND FINISH TN

EAGLE WIRE OH

ET MOTORGEAR TN

FARM HOUSE CRAFT CO TN

FARRIS INSURANCE NC

FAT CAT CUSTOMS TN

GIZMOE, INC SC

IQ MASSAGERS TN

KIM’S GOLD DUST PA

LEAF FILTER NORTH OH

MARINES TN

MOTOR ART GALLERY OH

MOTORSPORTS ACC IN

NCM INSURANCE KY

NCM CORVETTE STORE KY

NCRS-SE FL

NICHE BOUTIQUE TN

PAPA SHINE TN

PAPARAZZI JEWELRY $5 TN

PODELL FUEL INJECTIONS IN SAMETINI, GLORIA TN

SNAP-IT-JEWELRY KY

SOUTHERN BARNWOOD TN

TOP FLIGHT AUTOMOTIVE PA

UDK KNIVES GA

VOLUNTEER VETTE TN

WIZARD PRODUCTS LA

WYATT, GREG GA

AL KNOCH INTERIORS TX

AUSLEY’S CHEVELLE NC

AUTO-ENTEC PA

B&M CLASSIC CLOCK GA

BEAVER, JOHN OH

BULLFISH CONCESSION TN

CHASSIS CONCEPTS PA

CHEROKEE TIE DOWNS SC

COOPERS CORVETTE TN

CORVETTE CENTRAL MI

CORV. POWER TOP SVC TN

DISTINCT VIBRASHIELD TN

DREAM RESTORATIONS NC

ET MOTORGEAR TN

FARRIS, RANDY TN

ETTER, CARL GA

GALLI SHIRTS, INC. FL

GERMAN ROASTED NUTS TN

GREGORY, CHAD KY

HODGE, JOHN TN

HORNE, RICK TN

HUNTER’S CUSTOM TN

HUNTER, ROY KY

JT ACCESSORIES TX

JOE RAY PARTS AR

JOHNSON, GEORGE FL

JONES, GARY NC

KEEN PARTS OH

KILLEBREW, CHUCK TN

KROHN, ROBERT AL

LYON, RICHARD MS

MILLER OIL TN

NOW THAT’S FUDGE! NC

OWREYS CLASSIC AUTO FL

PARKER, PHILLIP TN

PODELL, CATHY IN

RJ’S RESTORATION NC

INSIDE VENDORS

RESTO MOD TECH MO

ROBINSON, NATHAN NC

RON’S COLLECTABLES TN SCENTSY VA

TAYLOR, RICHARD GA

THOMPSON ASTRO TOPS AL

TROUBLE FREE LIGHTING OH

THUNDER ROAD CREATIONS TN US MARINES TN

VETTE MASTERS VA

VETTE MEN TN

VETTE PROS NC

VETTE WRECKS MD

W&M DVD’S GA

WATSON, GARY TN

WILDCAT VETTE PARTS TN

WILLINGHAM, KENNETH AL

OUTSIDE VENDORS

BULLFISH CONCESSION TN

COFFMAN CORVETTE OH

COOPERS CORVETTE TN

CORVETTE CLASSICS GA

D&A CORVETTE IL

DAUGHERTY, DAVID FL ET MOTORGEAR TN

FARRIS INSURANCE NC

GARYS SOUND MACHINE TN

HACKER, DENNIS TN

JOE OLDFIELD MOTORS KY

LUSHER, GREGG TN

M&W AUTO PARTS SC

MARION AUTO TN

MEADOWS, WADE GA

POPE, WAYNE TN

SCHMID, RICHARD TN

SELLERS, CLYDE AL

SHAFER, WALTER FL

SOUTHERN CRUZIN MOBILITY GA

TUCKER, ROBBIE GA

WAGNER, CHARLES TN

WEST POINT AUTO KY

WORLEY, EUGENE TN

Let me introduce to you our Miss Corvette Expo 2020... Riser House Records Artist Logan Murrell.

“When

you play songs for pocket change, you learn how to turn on a dime.”

Just ask Logan Murrell. She’s been busking since she was 10 years old, playing guitar and singing Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” for crowds at Market Square in Knoxville and later performing in front of popular tourist restaurants in Pigeon Forge – anywhere people were lined up waiting for a table.

“It’s where I fell in love with performing,” she said. “I played for older people who loved classic country, I played for younger kids who loved Taylor Swift, and I played for the crowd in between who loved James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, and Chicago. I was connecting with a 7-year-old and someone who was 70 – and everyone in between.”

“It’s where I fell in love with performing,” she said. “I played for older people who loved classic country, I played for younger kids who loved Taylor Swift, and I played for the crowd in between who loved James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, and Chicago. I was connecting with a 7-year-old and someone who was 70 –and everyone in between.”

With your audience at arm’s reach it’s do or die on the sidewalk. And Logan learned early how to make fans and fill her guitar case with dollars with undeniable musical skills, razor sharp intuition, and a fearless drive to perform. Even if her mom had to drive her to work.

She was an early prodigy in a family that loved

music but didn’t have lofty musical aspirations. But they recognized it in Logan as early as two when she sang “This is the Day the Lord Has Made” solo in church and they encouraged her every step toward an eventual career in Nashville.

She started playing piano by memory when she was four and guitar when she was eight, but the street corner was the gateway for a musical journey that included being mentored by the region’s best bluegrass performers, performing with the Knoxville Symphony, and joining the cast of the popular variety shows in Pigeon Forge, including the Old Smokey Hoedown and Country Tonight, where she was the “youth talent” dressed in

gingham and rhinestone belt buckles, which she still finds charming (she will admit to being a “bit of a dork”).

Pleading for lessons and regularly surpassing the skills of her teachers, Logan Murrell was a quick study. She inherited a crisp, fingerpicking Taylor guitar from her bee keeper dad when she played it more proficiently than he could. When he handed it over, he made her promise she would use it to follow her dreams.

Self aware and adept at mining the right moment – Logan found her creative home at Riser House, a full-service label, artist management, and publishing

company co-founded by Jennifer Johnson, who saw sparkle and promise when Logan was just 14 and later signed her to a record and publishing deal.

Now a seasoned performer and gifted songwriter at 22, Logan is getting ready to release her first EP and share what she has learned as a wry observer of everyday life.

With a mental inventory of 500 songs, she’s a walking jukebox and there isn’t much she can’t play. And she brings that wealth of musical knowledge to her songwriting. Her foundation was forged in country and bluegrass, but she calls her sound “Southern Blue-Eyed Soul” due in

large part to the influential female singers she emulated growing up from Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline to Karen Carpenter, Bonnie Raitt, and Stevie Nicks.

Performing more than 300 shows a year teaches you something about yourself and she carries herself with undeniable confidence. She knows who she is as an artist with a firm hold on what she wants to say as a songwriter.

“At an early age I was able to connect with people though music and see the value of music and what it can do,” she said with complete humility. “At every age, you can make an impact with music. I love knowing I can do that.”

That’s not to say it’s been easy – it rarely is for any kid this talented who would rather play for tips than go to football games and sleepovers. But what she gained was a huge audience of fans from around the world who fell in love with the bright, talented little girl with the big guitar and bigger voice.

Even her nick name is an homage to her musical leanings, LALA. Nothing trite, it is an acronym for (Logan Ashley) Murrell and she has it tattooed on her left arm above her wrist as a reminder of the power of music to move people. Her mission is to influence people to be kind and not be afraid to be their true self – no matter where they start or where that leads.

“Being kind and being real with people is something I am really passionate about with the songs I sing and the message they leave behind.”

FEATURE CLUB of CORVETTE EXPO

BAD BOY VETTES

FACEBOOK CORVETTE GROUP

In Memory of

August 9th , 1937 ~ September 18th, 2019

Bobby Joe Ledford

President of M&W Auto Parts Body Shop & Garage, Inc.

SCOTTIE D DIRTY DOZEN

12 HAND-PICKED CARS BY SCOTTIE D

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THINGS TO DO

APR

SMOKY MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL

April 3rd- April 25th

The Smoky Mountain Music Festival is a competition for elementary, middle and high school music groups. It offers these groups a chance to showcase their work and talent in front of adjudicators in the Smoky Mountains. On Friday, concert bands, jazz bands, orchestras, choral groups and winterguards, indoor drum lines, and other auxiliaries will perform at the Gatlinburg Convention Center. On Saturday adjudication of the Street Parade on the downtown Gatlinburg strip will occur. An awards ceremony will follow the competition on both days.

Gatlinburg Convention Center

234 Historic Nature Trail, Gatlinburg, TN 37738

SADDLE UP & THE ANNUAL CHUCK WAGON COOKOFF

April 4th - 5th

Pigeon Forge invites Western lifestyle enthusiasts, foodies and those in search of a hearty meal to the new Chuck Wagon Cook Off competition. Chuck wagons will gather for this one-of-a-kind outdoor cooking event. Long before today’s food truck craze treated foodies to impromptu kitchens on wheels, early American chuck wagons fed hungry cowboys on the open prairies during cattle drives. Chuck wagon cooks, or cookies, as they are known, rely on simple ingredients to guide their menus and fire to power their ovens.

Clabough’s Campground

405 Wears Valley Road, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

13TH ANNUAL MOUNTAIN MAN MEMORIAL MARCH

April 25th

The Annual Mountain Man Memorial March is a 26.2mile march in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Originally organized in 2007, the march was a personal tribute for University of Tennessee Army ROTC Cadet –1LT Frank Walkup, a 2005 UT graduate who was killed in action in Iraq. To honor his memory, a group of Cadets from the Rocky Top Battalion marched 26.2 miles with each Cadet carrying a 35-pound rucksack to represent his sacrifice.

More than a decade later, this event this has become one of the largest events in the United States to celebrate the service and honor the ultimate sacrifice of these fallen service members. Along with more than 45 ROTC units, participants now include active duty military, reserve and guard units, veterans of all services, family & friends of the fallen, JROTC units, and even Cub Scout Packs. www.mountainmanmemorialmarch.com

MEET RICK “CLETUS” HURST AT COOTER’S PIGEON FORGE

April 8th - 12th | 11am - 5pm

Come meet Rick “Cletus” Hurst from the “Dukes of Hazzard”

Cooter’s Garage

177 East Wears Valley Rd, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863 www.CootersPlace.com

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YELLOW MUSTANG REGISTRY

May 1st - 4th

This annual event is a celebration of Fords “pony” car. View over 70 mustangs dating back to the 60’s to current models all the while taking a stroll down memory lane. Enjoy meeting new friends and getting reacquainted with old friends. You can register your yellow Mustang, get merchandise, find out about events and get more information at www.yellowmustangregistry.com

The Christmas Place Inn 119 Christmas Tree Ln, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

BLOOMIN’ BBQ & BLUEGRASS

May 15th - 16th

Two-days of food and fun in historic downtown Sevierville. See live entertainment from Priscilla & Little RicKee ft. Louisa Branscomb, Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, Balsam Range, Dale Ann Bradley, Love Canon, Phil Leadbetter & the All-Stars of Bluegrass, Dale Ann Bradley, and headliner Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

More than forty of the nation’s top BBQ cook teams will be on hand for the Bush’s Best Tennessee State Championship Cook Off. Other event highlights include The Mountain Soul Vocal Competition honoring the songwriting of Dolly Parton, The Late Night Jam, and The People’s Choice Tasting Contest (ticketed) which let’s the public sample and vote for their favorite pulled pork. Free admission. Free concerts. www.bloominbbq.com

ANNUAL CHEVY CLASSIC ROUNDUP

May 15th - 16th

The Annual Tri-Five show celebrates the American icon classic Chevrolets from 1955-57. See over 100 modified and restored Chevys. Music and food vendors will also be on site. Looking for that hard to find part for your own project vehicle? Visit vendors row for a wide variety of parts and technical support. Model car contest for kids, food, music, etc. Come join the fun!

The Christmas Place Inn

119 Christmas Tree Ln, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863

PENTECOSTAL FIRE YOUTH CONFERENCE

4/2 - 4/3

Get fired up about your faith at the Pentecostal Fire Youth Conference! This two-day event promotes Christian morals and living among today’s youth. The Pentecostal Fire Youth Conference also includes an expo where ministries are able to share their missionary work, Christian CDs and information on bible schools. The Conference is free to attend, however a donation of up to $25 is welcome.

PIGEON FORGE SPRING ROD RUN 4/16 - 4/18

The Pigeon Forge Spring Rod Run is an event no car enthusiast wants to miss. This annual event is the largest car show in the Smoky Mountain region.

Thousands of people will be in attendance enjoying some of the best show cars in the country. There’s also a swap meet and huge car corral. In the past more than $8,000 has been awarded for King of the Hill, the Ultimate 5 and Top 25 show cars.

REGISTRATION PRICE: $30-50

WOMEN OF JOY: RISE UP

4/24 - 4/26

Share a few days with Women of Joy – a ministry that has been changing the lives of women since 1994. Lead by Phil and Debbie Waldrep, these weekends serve and minister to crowds ranging from 1,000 to 14,000 women at each event. These incredible weekends are designed, created and intended to bring women of all ages and cultures together to help you pursue a passionate relationship with Jesus Christ.

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1992 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. $5,300-OBO | Clean, interior is in great shape, black leather, new tires, new upgraded distributor, accel ignition module, ready to enjoy, NO PAY PAL, will trade for a Cadillac CTS or equivalent- or best offer, (cash in my hand gets the title in your hand). TEXT 865-804-0369

1975 CHEVROLET STINGRAY CORVETTE. **HERE AT CORVETTE EXPO!!!** $8,000 | Pristine, Low mileage, 350, turbo 400, Lady owned for 30 years, always garaged, Just did oil change, trans fluid, new tires, brakes, calipers, alternator, tune up, new Ecklers glass bumpers, original owners manual, repair manual, luggage rack T-top holders, T-top bags & harness, CALLS ONLY !!!!! 423-956-1043

Wheels and Deals

2002 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. $11,900 | ONLY 99,000 miles, nice car, garage kept, I owned it for 4yrs, I love this car hate to see go, SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY, Call Dale at 423-237-0367

1972 MODDED CHEVROLET CORVETTE CONVERTIBLE. $34,900 | 2-owner, heavily documented, numbers matching C3 bumper car, original Ontario Orange over deluxe tax leather, matching hardtop & black soft top, all important Protect-O-Plate, the numbers matching engine has a fresh rebuild, A/C blows cold!, Too much to list! 864-324-1049, located in Charolette, SC

SHOW SPECIAL

2009 CHEVROLET CORVETTE 4LT. $25,900 | ONLY 37,000 miles, 6.2 V8, automatic, removable glass top, heated leather seats, navigation, new 18” front tires, 19” rear tires, heads up display, bought new in Knoxville, no accidents, clean title, Call or text 865740-3153

1991 CHEVROLET CORVETTE. $5,000 | Completely rebuilt transmission, new torque converter, ZZ4 crate motor, Comp Cam brand roller cam and rocker arms, Edelbrock performance heads and hooker headers, oil pump, new injectors, Too many new parts to list, Serious inquiries only and please no calls or texts after 10pm or before 8am, 865-617-7152