it's, a, the chevy corvette from its introduction in 1953. chevy produced 1.5 million of them.amie: in the early000s jamie: in the early 2000 harold lemay family is struggling to honor his dying wish to the creation of a museum where his collection can be on public display. when that will be featured is the black beauty model t. i meet for a driving lesson. hand cranks the car to started. >> faq are up for it. >> given did good crank. >> ouch is this a trick? come on. get me a car that works. >> there you go. jamie: the model d is considered the first affordable automobile but it is not particularly easy to drive february cassava right? is easy to see why he fell in love with his classic. the hair is blowing and the top is down. hit the brake. that is for word. throttle up. perfect. not a scratch but a collision in is in store for the lemay family trying to get the museum into drive you need a building and fund-raising in all the next steps. the family donates 600 cars and $15 million but it is not be enough so they hire a fund-raiser who tells them they have to have corporate

. >> yeah this a chevy corvette v of 06. i'm going to get in here.it fits like a glove. tell me about this car. >> muscle cars are hot. everything about american muscle is hot right now. this is the chevrolet v06. if you look to get anywhere quickly, this would be the vehicle. >> tell me about the outside. it seems tricked out outside. >> that is right. the design everything has a purpose. >> how much is this going to cost you? >> for a car like this it's $78,000. >> wow. and now is that a deal compared to the really high end ones? >> if you look at a ferrari or lamborghini you are talking there are $200-$300,000. >> the fun thing about coming here we were saying no pressure to buy. it's just really you know for a kid in a candy store you can look. >> all the cars are unlocked. people can bring the kids down. they can climb in the cars. you can get wi-fi now in cars. you can learn about electric vehicles and do some dreaming. not just all about the practical cars. >> hank so much. we will show you a lot more things throughout the morning. [ technical

chevy corvette, doubled in sales. the mustang up 66%.calade gives you 14 miles to the gallon sales up almost 40% for 2014. you know, most vehicle segments did pretty well in 2014 but one that didn't, you know, even the small cars did pretty well but one that didn't was full-sized cars. the full-sized car offering from each of the detroit three actually all were down. the ford taurus, the impala and the chrysler 300 also. nobody seems to like that middle ground in there. small car one thing, trucks, fancy cars another thing, but nobody likes the middle ground i guess. gerri? gerri: so you talk about the trucks i think that -- 33 years, that's amazing to me. but i want to ask you about mercedes and bmw, they're duking it out. who won? >> this was the latest numbers. the germans always report late, and the winner is this year, you know last year it was mercedes winning over bmw, this year it's mercedes. they were up 11% -- or, no, i'm sorry, bmw, i got it wrong. bmw up 11%. mercedes won last year, bmw this year. mercedes only up 3% so a big

chevy. this is a 2015 corvette v-06 versus a 2012 lam brborghinilamborghini. the lightweight race version of the lamborghini. they're going to go for a drag race here. let's forget about that for a second and watch how this stacks up. first race looks like the corvette gets the jump and pulls away. usa! >> american cars are very good at going very fast in a straight line. >> this corvette is spectacular. racing against that lamborghini that does have four-wheel drive. so in the second race you'll see that become very apparent. the corvette loses a little bit of traction. spins the rear tires. and the lamborghini walks this one. >> there's an access road next to a highway? that's really scary to me. >> i know i know. but it's really cool to watch. as is this. let's call this a dream ride for young boys. imagine riding your bike and you come across this. the racing scion tc. how cool would that be? >> hey, buddy. >> what's cooler the kid gets a ride. >> want to go for a ride? >> are you sure? >> that's great. >> this is a video put out by the race team and some