Showing posts with label corvette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corvette. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

1954 Vette pulled out of a field in upstate New York


That rust to the middle of the tire is proof that cars will settle into their own graves

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Had you heard about the Peter Max collection of Corvettes?



above photos Tony Cenicola / nytimes.com

Above photo David Allee / nymag.com

36 vintage Corvettes in a parking garage in Brooklyn.

One Corvette for each year they were made, starting with a pearl-white ’53 (one of only 300) and ending with a red 1989, they were the prize in a contest sponsored by VH1, the cable music channel, in 1989. The contest awarded the whole lot to one winner, Dennis Amodeo, a carpenter from Long Island. HE sold the whole bunch for $500,000 to Peter Max who intended to paint them all as rolling art, but never got around to it. So the Vettes sat and gathered dust for about 20 years. They recieved a lot of publicity... but no love or interest from Peter.

The collection was a promotion envisioned by Jim Cahill who realized the VH1 audience was a good target demographic for any year Corvette and the contest would boost ratings. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/automobiles/collectibles/14corvette.html and http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/11902/

Thursday, February 18, 2010

For eyecandy and christmas wishlist material, spend a little time on Two Seats or Less

1970 Muira S
CSX 2557
1934 Ford, mostly original
Shelby GT350H
hasn't been out of strorage since 1971
Replica Grand Sport Corvette
Stored since 1981, supposedly only 57k orig miles, 396 SS/RS
http://twoseatsorless.com/ for a great time waster at work!