The Lingenfelter Collection will unlock its doors to the public for its sixth annual Holiday Toy Drive and Open House from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in Brighton. Bring a toy for a needy tot and see Santa Claus, the Grinch and Ken Lingenfelter's famed assortment of 160-plus collector cars — including a room-full of historic Corvettes.

It’s a collection built on Lingenfelter Performance Engineering’s mod shop down the road in Wixom, which for decades has slaked muscle-car enthusiasts’ thirst for higher horsepower General Motors Co. products like Chevrolet Corvettes, Camaros, and Cadillac V-Series monsters.

It’s a thirst that is increasingly shared by the market’s biggest segment: truck customers.

GM pumps out 30,000 Corvettes a year from its Kentucky factory, but that pales next to over 1.2

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