Kansas City Corvette Association

Learn about your 2022 Club Treasurer
Kay Carlile.
Wayne and I have been married since 1980.  Together we have a total of 4 children, 4 granddaughters, 3 grandsons, 2 great grandsons and 3 great granddaughters (one of our great granddaughters was born on my 65^th birthday – a wonderful surprise!). 

When and how did you get involved with Corvettes?
Wayne always wanted a ’41 Chevy.  I surprised him with one for his 45^th birthday.  We started going to cruise nights almost every Friday and Saturday.  We were at the Winstead’s In Liberty, MO in July of 1992.  Wayne was looking at cars and I was sitting with a couple of our grandchildren.  He asked me to come look at a car he had found.  It was a Corvette.  It was a mess – paint was spiderwebbed, etc.  needed a lot of work but it had a for sale sign in the window.  Wayne was telling me that he could do all the work that needed to be done except the paint job.  About that time the owner came over and I asked him what year it was.  He said “1971” I looked at Wayne and said “buy it”.  It is the year I graduated from Bonner Springs High School.  He did and the Corvettes just kind of multiplied from there.  We bought the 1996 in December, 1995 and the 2000 in December, 1999.  Of course I thought we would trade one for another……boy was I wrong.  That is one reason why the license plate on the 2000 is RLAST1 – I meant it this time!

How long have you been a member of the club? We joined KCCA in November 1998.  We had been friends with a number of KCCA members for sometime .

What made you decide to get involved being an officer?  Wayne was KCCA PR officer for 6 years back in the early 2000’s.  He did the leg work and I did the computer work.  I always enjoyed it.  So after Wayne was no longer PR, I was KCCA membership officer for maybe 5 or 6 years.  I enjoyed so much meeting all the new members.  But I was still working and it just got to be a little much with us working on both the Superior Corvette Show and the Vettes on the Square show – I think I got burnt out.  Then November 2, 2018 I retired.  With Brenda’s nudging I decided I would like to get more involved again.

What message would you have to invite people to come join in the fun?  This is an easy one.  The very first time, way back in 1993, Wayne and I were at the Superior Corvette Show.  We were not members of any car club at the time.   We really didn’t know anyone but there were people sitting in circles visiting.  I was in the ladies room and I asked someone that was in there also….how do you get to join that circle (thinking you had to me be club member) her answer to me was “Bring a chair”.  Her name is Karen Primm.  It was the best advice.  So I would invite people – the more you put into just joining in the better time you will have.

Thank you Kay for sharing!
Kay can be reached via email at kaycarlile0727@gmail.com 

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