Our loyal reader and thoughtful commenter Alex Kowalski died of cancer two years ago (see Rest in Peace, Alex Kowalski). A few of us got together on some memorial tiles at the National Corvette Museum. One of Alex’s skills was dealer-level car maintenance and he rebuilt the engine on a 1968 C3 Corvette.
We stopped into the Cathedral of Corvette in August 2025 to pay our respects to Alex and to the engineering behind the machine that he loved enough to rebuild.
The visit started with a Nissan Altima identifying as a Corvette:
The memorial for Alex is just inside the entrance:
Here’s a crazy story about a Corvette that rose from its tomb:
The same year/generation Corvette that Alex had, driven by Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell (passed away just a few days after our museum visit, on August 7, 2025 at age 97):
Some relevant advice from the Corvette Club of Tennessee: “Life is Short: Keep the Pedal to the Metal”. I wish that Alex’s life had been longer, but am glad that we have the memories at the museum and here on this server.
Rest in peace, Alex. I did not realize he was that old. Our birthdays are almost the same. Glad you guys got together to memorialize and remember him.