Fast Cars

The Corvette is almost 52 now, but this is a sweet story about a sweet car.

On Monday the Corvette turns 50 years old:

Tom Meadows isn't kidding when he says his two children, both in their 30s, are too young to inherit his all-original 1966 Corvette.

"It's in my will that if something happens to me before they come of age - which I believe is at least 40 - she goes to the National Corvette Museum until they're old enough to treat her right," said Meadows of Salisbury, Md., on Thursday as he stood beside the pristine convertible with only 8,800 miles on it.

The couple are among thousands of Corvette enthusiasts streaming into Nashville and Bowling Green, Ky., this weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the sleek sports car that first rolled off the Chevrolet assembly line on June 30, 1953, in Flint, Mich.

Time to celebrate -- at least take your mom out for some apple pie. But if you have a Corvette you still might be able to join a caravan of Corvettes heading on out there.