Everyone dreams of owning that car "driven by a little old lady to church on Sundays." Kevin Ivey actually has it. Whether it looks it or not, Kevin's Corvette was totally stock when he first purchased it from an elderly woman who owned a breakfast restaurant near his home in Holly Hill, Florida. She drove it to work and, unknowingly, taunted Kevin when he saw the car sitting in front of her business. He knew that someday it would be his and, in March 1993, the object of his desires became a reality.
Kevin had special plans for this Corvette. He immediately started the transformation and still drove the car daily. The engine was rebuilt and the cylinders bored 0.030-inch oversize at 54,000 ticks of the odometer. Kevin wanted to add a Greenwood body package and paint the car DuPont Bright Blue Pearl Metallic instead of the original Medium Grey Metallic.
And since he was modifying the car, Kevin decided to turn up the mods another notch by removing the door handles and painting the halo over the passenger compartment black to blend in better with the tinted windows. Kevin's Corvette now has electronic AutoLoc actuators to open the doors remotely. Once all of the body panels were installed and the door handles shaved, Kevin and friend Doug Sparks took the car from Kevin's garage to Classic Auto Body where the new color was applied. Up until the actual paint squirting, all of the work was done in Kevin's two-car garage, with Kevin building a solid workshop of tools to get the project finished.
When it came to personalizing his Corvette, Kevin wanted to make sure there wasn't another one like it, inside or out. For the inside, he wanted to go with the high-tech, electronics look. That included upgrading from the factory stereo with a Pioneer DEH-55 DH receiver, an SDV-P7 DVD player, and an 8-inch-wide screen LCD color display. The system pumps the sound through a duo of amplifiers, a GMX-904 (400 watts) and a GMX-802 (200 watts) feeding the four Pioneer, TS-A6966, 6x9-inch, three-way speakers and two Pioneer TS-W1240, 12-inch subwoofers.