The couple has owned 12 Corvettes, including a rare 2009 GT1 Championship coupe.

Charley Robertson runs the Corvette racing fan page on Facebook with 62,000 followers.

Charley Robertson remembers exactly where she was when she fell in love with Corvettes.

She was standing outside the forest science building at Texas A&M University in the mid-1970s. She was on her way to class when a loud sound caught her ear. She closed her eyes to listen.

“The noise of the engine just thrilled me,” Robertson told the Detroit Free Press. “But being in forestry, we had no choice but to buy trucks and use them in our business.”

The seed, however, had been planted. In 1988, Robertson's husband, Jim Robertson, purchased a 1974 Corvette Coupe from a neighbor who had kept the vehicle under a tarp in his bac

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