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You’re an Old Fuelie
For his first year at HBS, Jan Hyde (MBA ’66) arrived in style, driving all the way from San Francisco to Soldiers Field behind the wheel of a silver-and-white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a fuel-injected model known to aficionados as a “Fuelie.” Fuel injection in those precomputer days was exciting but not widely understood. “It’s a beautifully engineered system that I think was maybe more like a solution looking for a problem,” Hyde explained to the New York Times (December 2, 2007).
After a career in real estate and investment banking consulting, and a brief foray into competitive driving, Hyde, a New Yorker, now devotes himself to keeping that same 1960 Fuelie active and purring and documenting the history of Corvette racing, heretofore a virtual tabula rasa. Hyde and other fans are working on an online registry (registryofcorvetteracecars.com) that tries to document every Corvette — about 2,500 or so — that ever raced in an official series. “It’s my full-time occupation now,” Hyde said. “I’m enjoying the hell out of it.”
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