On the evening of June 17, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado tore through northern Effingham County, Illinois, scoring a direct hit on the sprawling campus of Mid America Motorworks — one of the most iconic Corvette parts suppliers in the hobby (vetteregistry.net). Founder Mike Yager, who started the company in 1974 with a small loan and a table of Corvette manuals, confirmed from Italy that the property was "totally lost," including the MY Garage Museum and its cars, the corporate building and inventory, a 1910 vintage gas station, all exterior signage, and every support building on site (vetteregistry.net). Yager described the loss as encompassing the company's "entire 52 years in business" along with irreplaceable personal family history.

Effingham County Board Chairman Joshua Douthit issued a disaster proclamation in response to the storm, with multiple people taken to the hospital (effinghamdailynews.com). The tornado was part of a volatile Midwest severe weather outbreak that FOX Weather described as cementing 2026 as "one of the most active severe weather years in recent memory" (foxweather.com).

Two drivers in Wheat Ridge, Colorado brought traffic on Interstate 70 to a standstill on June 10, 2026, after a road rage incident escalated from brake-checking to an all-out fistfight — all of it caught on video shared by the Wheat Ridge Police Department (gazette.com). The footage shows one driver slamming the other's car door shut, followed by the second driver punching out the rear window of the first driver's vehicle and then pulling what appears to be a tire iron from his trunk (cbsnews.com).

Both drivers were eventually located — one tracked down at Colorado Mills Mall with help from Lakewood police's Drones as First Responder program — and both were cited for disorderly conduct (cbsnews.com). Police called the incident "downright dangerous" and urged the public to "bring the temperature down on our roads" (kmbc.com).

Owners of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 equipped with the optional ZTK performance package are discovering that its massive 75-inch carbon fiber rear wing can generate enough downforce to physically damage the car's paint at speeds above 180 mph (carbuzz.com). The issue was first documented by YouTuber Wheeler after a track session at Daytona where he hit 185 mph, and has since been confirmed on at least two additional vehicles, including a Z06 fitted with the same wing assembly (autos.yahoo.com). The root cause appears to be that the reinforced section of the decklid is too small to evenly distribute the aerodynamic load, and without foam gaskets or cushioning, the wing struts push directly into the paint as the bodywork flexes under up to 1,200 pounds of total downforce (autoblog.com).

GM covered the cost of paint repairs for at least one owner, but no recall or technical service bulletin has been issued (carbuzz.com). Ironically, the paint damage essentially proves the aero package is working exactly as engineered — producing near-half-ton downforce places enormous stress on every component involved, including the bodywork beneath the wing (autos.yahoo.com).

A 1962 Chevrolet Corvette restomod — the final year of the solid-axle C1 generation — is currently trending on Hemmings Auctions, the product of a three-year, roughly 6,000-hour build by a retired General Motors skilled trades employee (corvetteblogger.com). The car is built on an SRIII Motorsports tube chassis and powered by a 6.2-liter LS3 V8 paired with a Tremec six-speed manual transmission sourced from a 2015 Camaro SS, blending classic styling with thoroughly modern performance underpinnings.

Located in Gold Canyon, Arizona, and showing just 300 miles since completion, bidding had already reached $110,000 with the auction set to close on June 19 (corvetteblogger.com). The build exemplifies the strong restomod market for early Corvettes, where LS3-swapped C1 and C2 examples regularly command six-figure prices on platforms like Bring a Trailer and Hemmings (corvetteforum.com).