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Let the Good Times Roll Words Dwain Hebda images courtesy Razorback Corvette Club, Fort Smith Antique Automobile Club, Arkansas Valley Mustang Club, Donna Redding, and Mickey Calicott
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Jan Marshall, the spitfire events coordinator for the Razorback
me that instead of an engagement ring, I would probably
Corvette Club in Fort Smith, is caught in a delicious memory.
marry them on the spot.
Asked when she first fell in love with the iconic sports car, her mind races back to Cedardale High School.
"I aspired to own a Corvette by the time I was thirty, and I did that. I've been a gearhead pretty much my whole life. I
"Well, I was a senior in high school and saw my first one,"
didn't need any other car; I didn't care about Mustangs."
she says, her age transposing from seventy-one to seventeen in an instant. "It was green; I don't remember what shade
To rival car enthusiasts, them's fighting words, West Side
of green, with a tan interior, and I lost my mind. It's the
Story-style. Ask members of the Arkansas Valley Mustang
lines that make my heart beat faster. It's not necessarily the
Club, and they'll take up as passionately for their choice of
colors; it's the lines and the aerodynamics. It just called my
ride as Jan does hers.
name and said, 'You need me.' That was it for me." "I like to get on the crooked road; I raced go-karts for years Jan has owned multiple Corvettes in her life; her latest, a
back in the day when I was young and could get into the
2009 c6 and red, clean to the underside of the hood where
things," says Mickey Calicott, club president. "I like the
a big snorting Razorback graces the liner, is undoubtedly a
twisty roads, and the Mustang is a good car for that.
looker. But the native of Uniontown and retired high school teacher admits to one as-yet-unattained model, the thought
"I really did not know anything about [Mustangs] until I
of which still makes her go weak in the knees.
got this first one, and I've had a ball with it. I go coastto-coast and don't really worry about it; I just keep it up. I
"My very favorite one is a '63 split-window," she says.
can see why Ford sold so many of these Mustangs because
"That's the one I would love to have, and if someone gave
they are fun."
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