St. Jude Corvette Caravan leaves Louisville for fundraising drive to Memphis

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Corvette caravan left Louisville Thursday morning all for a good cause.

More than 30 Corvettes heading to Memphis, Tennessee for the St. Jude Corvette Drive.

The annual fundraising event goes directly from Louisville to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which provides critical care for kids with cancer at no cost to their families.

Robert Price was part of the caravan that had raised nearly $80,000 as the 385 mile trip began.

"It's such a blessing to see this. My wife and I have five grandchildren, so we do this kind of in honor of them because they're all healthy, but we know that there's a number of kids that are not, and our heart goes out to them," Price said. "It's a calling, it's a duty, it's a responsibility."

Once they arrive in Memphis, the Corvette enthusiasts will meet up with drivers from Peoria and Bourbonnais, Illinois, Nashville and St. Louis.

"Seeing those kids and nurses and doctors and specialists," Price said. "The way that they appreciate us for what we've done, and we've done so little."

More than 100 Corvettes drive through the St. Jude campus Thursday afternoon to brighten the day of children who might be having the worst day of their life.

Cancer survivor Hunter Davis was one of those children.

"We were just waiting on some appointments, and the whole building just started to shake, and we were like what on earth is going on?"

Davis was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was just 15 years old and spent nine months at St. Jude for treatment. "It was just an absolute gamechanger for the day 'cause, I mean, you're just in and out of appointments all day, something like that is like, it's like the biggest thing we'd seen you know?"

Now, nearly eight years cancer-free, Davis has been taking the ride to change someone else's life.

St. Jude provides cancer and other life-saving treatment for kids at no cost to their families. Since it started in 2012, the St. Jude Drive has raised more than $2.2 million.

Davis said it means so much to the patients and their families.

"It's incredible. It's extremely emotional, but I just think back to the emotions and the feelings I was having that day, and just knowing that I'm able to do that for someone else now is, I mean, it's huge," he said.

Donations are being accepted for the St. Jude Drive through the end of June. Click here for more information.

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