In the fall of 1971, they started forming the Central West Virginia Corvette Club which would initially begin in January of 1972. The charter members were Connor Thompson, Tom Miller, Johnny Warner, Charlie Goff, Eddie Barnette, Rodney Holler and Ton Maxwell. With this only giving them seven of the ten members needed to meet the requirements, they decided to sign up Connor's wife and the girlfriends of two other members. The Corvettes they owned ranged from 1959 to 1971. Within three years all of the members had left except Johnny Walker.