Kentucky Salvation Army Receives Huge Help from Corvette Club

Bowling Green Assembly Corvette Club’s annual fundraiser may have been put on hold, but the giving never stops for anything.

The Corvette is more than a sports car, America’s or otherwise. It’s also the thread which brings together everyone in a way few other cars can. The Corvette community is a family, one that looks out for one another, and the communities around them. Throughout the year, you’ll see various Corvette clubs giving back however they can, through charity car shows, drives, and other fundraisers.

One such group is the Bowling Green Assembly Corvette Club, who call — wherelse? — Bowling Green, Kentucky home. Every year, they host a car show fundraiser for the Bowling Green Warren County Humane Society, and The Salvation Army Food Bank. Alas, the show couldn’t go on this year, but, according to local ABC affiliate WBKO-TV, the group were still able to bring in $4,000 of canned food to the food bank.

“We’ve been doing this for 13 years,” BGA Corvette Club co-founder Dave Chrisley told local newspaper Bowling Green Daily News. “Today, we delivered a little over $4,000 worth of proteins that we purchased.”

The Corvette club had cancelled its car show, “Vettes, Pets and Families,” due to the UAW/General Motors strike; the show is hosted on the grounds of Bowling Green Assembly. Despite the strike, the club members — from BGA and GM employees, to Corvette owners of all stripes — were still able to keep their promise to the community, especially with the cold months now upon the citizens of Bowling Green.

“Our sponsors, when we went back to them, we said ‘hey we are not having a car show this year,’” said Chrisley. “They instantly said ‘go ahead, use the money, do what you do and we are good with it.’”

‘The Corvette community is a very giving community. We love our cars, but we also have been very blessed. So, we like to give back as much as we can.’

Chrisley added that he himself used the food bank in 1972, back when it was in a different location, and that he has sent people to the food bank over the years. As he told WBKO-TV, “The number of people this facility services in the community is astounding.”

“The Corvette community is a very giving community,” Chrisley told the Bowling Green Daily News. “We love our cars, but we also have been very blessed. So, we like to give back as much as we can.”

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