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www.motortrendclassic.com	1964 World's Fair Corvette
www.motortrendclassic.com	Flying Cars were a vision of the future, and the General built a Corvette Sting Ray for the Jetsons. America was at the crest of her postwar technology and economic prowess in 1964. At once the year was diverse, spectacular.... Read more here...
www.driveonline.com	You Could Call Him Mr. Corvette
www.driveonline.com	In the world of muscle cars, the true American sports car finds a special place. Not only has it evolved over the years in a fascinating series of more powerful shapes, but GM had the balls to take the Corvette and win in virtually every racing venue with it. Read more here...
www.robbreport.com	From A to Z06
www.robbreport.com	The Corvette Z06 may run with the world's best super cars in terms of performance and handling, but it is also a reliable and comfortable daily driver. And when an owner's thoughts turn toward preservation, enhancement, and perhaps some discreet display of comradeship with fellow enthusiasts, aftermarket supplier Mid America Motorworks stands ready to assist. Read more here...
www.meyerspublishing.com	A Car Show On Wheels
www.meyerspublishing.com	On one day a year, "America's sports car" becomes a commuter car for owners who might otherwise be driving it only on weekends. Drive Your Corvette to Work Day encourages enthusiasts to celebrate the car's birthday by driving it to work. Read more here...
www.hemmings.com	Corvette's Chief Cheerleader
www.hemmings.com	Mike Yager remembers the first time he saw a Corvette and how it changed his life forever. Among other things, the car inspired him to become an industry leader in the Corvette aftermarket where he is known as a true innovator in selling and marketing Corvette parts. Read more here...
www.corvetteenthusiast.com	CERV 1 Corvette Documentary
www.corvetteenthusiast.com	CERV 1 (Corvette Engineering Research Vehicle) is featured with other famous Corvettes in the new "Victory By Design" documentary. It will air in late 2005 or early in 2006 on the Speed Channel. "Victory in Design" team filmed Corvettes across the U.S. for several months. Read more here...
www.vetteweb.com	The Illustrated Corvette No. 102 Corvette people are brilliant. Mike Yager of Mid America Motorworks came up with a novel idea. While most collectors think of "special editions" and "firsts," Mike thought of the "last" C4 Corvette off the production line. Read more here...
www.hemmings.com	Yager joins LeMay Mike Yager, founder of Mid America Motorworks, has been named to the board of the Harold LeMay Museum in Washington. Yager started his business 30 years ago and has built his Effingham, Illinois-based company into the premier supplier of Corvette, Volkswagen and Porsche aftermarket parts and accessories. Read more here... or Lemay Museum here...
www.chevypower.com	The Last Small Block The famed Chevy small block engine was born in 1955 at the GM Engine Plant in Flint Michigan. Forty-one years later, the last small block made in Flint rolled off the line and was installed in the last C4 Corvette. Read more here...
www.rmauctions.com	Mike Yager Collection Sold at RM Auctions RM Auctions is delighted to have been chosen to represent Corvettes from the collection of Mike Yager as it is undoubtedly one of the most significant, rare and desirable Corvette Collections in the world. Read more here....
www.rmauctions.com	CERV 1 CERV 1 (Corvette Engineering Research Vehicle) is a test platform developed in the late 1950s by Zora Arkus-Duntov, the "Godfather" of the Corvette. Read more here....
www.americanexecutive.com	Cruise Control Many companies can say they put their customers first, but it is how they carry it out that makes the difference. To the folks at Mid America Motorworks, Customer Care means more than user-friendly ordering systems and a high-quality selection of parts and accessories for Corvettes, Porsches, and Air-cooled VW's - it means allowing car enthusiasts at all levels to pursue their passions. Read more here...
www.rmauctions.com	The Last C4 Corvette The C4 Corvette (Fourth Generation Corvette) was a milestone from the day it was introduced in March 1983 as the new 1984 model. Corvette engineers had completely redesigned "America's sports car," creating a reliable, high performance, high-horsepower sports car.. Read more here...
www.meyerspublishing.com	Volkswagen and Audi With new and redesigned entry-level cars arriving here over the next year, Air-Cooled VW and Audi tuners are busy developing and sourcing products. Volkswagen and Audi enthusiasts have some anniversaries to look back on and new models to look forward to in 2005. Read more here...
www.catalogsuccess.com	A Road to Success In years past, automobiles were distinctive. Each model made a statement about itself and its owner. Today, many cars tend to look similar. The handful of exceptions include the Mini Cooper, PT Cruiser, Air-Cooled VW Beetle, Bentley, Porsche and, of course, the Corvette. Read more here...
www.bentleypublishers.com	Corvette Illus. Encyclopedia Forward Mike Yager Corvette passion hit me early and has stayed with me all my life. As a boy, when I first saw my older brothers drive their Corvettes, I knew I had to own one. My Corvette dreams have come true beyond my wildest expectations. I purchased my first Corvette when I was 20 years old. Over the years, I estimate I've owned 200 Corvettes. Read more here...
www.catalogagemag.com	High on Rocky Mountain Effingham, IL-based multi-title cataloger Mid America Motorworks celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. And what better way to celebrate than by acquir�ing a key rival? In February, Mid America bought Woodland Park, CO-�based Rocky Mountain Motorworks. Rocky Mountain was the $40 million� plus Mid America's largest competitor in the VW aftermarket accessories marketplace... Read more here...
www.boomtownusa.net	Shifting Gears : From Passion To Profit Mike Yager was infatuated with Corvettes as a teenager, but he didn't simply fantasize about turning his passion into a profitable business. In 1974, at the age of 24, he borrowed $500 from a local bank in Effingham, Illinois, and started selling Corvette patches, jackets, shirts, glasses and owner's manuals at auto events and through a one-page catalog sheet. Read more here...
www.classicandsportscar.com	American Institution : Funfest 2000 All Corvettes are not the same. Although there have been just five basic body shapes since the car was launched as a puny six-cylinder weakling in 1953, more than 1.2 million have been produced and the cars are as varied as their owners. America's only sports car has become an institution, but all of these owners... Read more here...
www.robbreport.com	Rare View : Vetting the Goods Mike Yager successfully mixes business with pleasure. In the mid-1970's he sold Corvette T-shirts to fellow 'Vette enthusiasts out of his 1967 Sting Ray. A quarter-century later, the 51-year-old entrepreneur has developed Mid America Direct into a $35 million auto parts and accessories company in Effingham Ill. Read more here...
www.forbes.com	For Love Or Money There are three kinds of Corvette owners: Vette nuts, Vette lunatics - and Michael Yager. He owns 50 Corvettes, a warehouse of Corvette memorabilia and a swimming pool shaped like the Chevrolet bow tie. He also sells Corvette parts, some 17,000 via catalog, from headlight motor gears to chrome exhaust pipes. Read more here...
	Cult of the Corvette It's the weekend after Labor Day, and I'm hanging my Nikon out the window of an airplane flying over the show grounds of Corvette aftermarket manufacturer Mid America Motorworks' annual "Funfest for Corvette" in Effingham, IL. Read more here...
www.wsj.com	Where to Buy Your Vette All It Wants & Needs It's lunch time in this tiny farm town. Michael Yager cruises up the main drag in his vintage Corvette and parks. A teenager leans out of a passing car and yells, "What year is that?" Read more here...
www.corvettequarterly.com	I Drive a Corvette It was one of those freeze-frame moments that can change a life forever: Date: June 11, 1962. Time: 3:30 p.m. Place: I-44 in St. Louis near the Pillsbury plant. This was the moment that Mike Yager first crossed paths with a Corvette. It was a 1962 coming down the freeway - the first one that young Mike had ever really noticed. Read more here...