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“The Hard Rock Cafe opened in 1995 in the West Edmonton Mall. That’s where I first saw the car.” Rory Christianson loves C1 Corvettes. When he made the 2-hour trip from his home in Stettler to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, he would patronize the world’s largest mall (at the time) to gaze at a real Vette “hanging on the wall.” The red-with-white-cove ’61 was a dazzling sight to behold a few yards away from a patron sipping on a bottle of Moosehead Lager. The classic had no engine or transmission, but the rearend, front suspension, frame and body were “all there.”

“We could see the gauges, but they ‘tarped’ over the interior.”

Bolting this C1 onto the wall must have required steel beams because the car even came with a set of old style Cragar SS wheels, tires, bumpers, windshield and more. The Hard Rock even turned on headlights and taillights to signal the place was [...]

US President Barack Obama is spreading the TV love around. The world leader, who featured on a recent outdoor television episode with Bear Grylls in the Alaskan wilderness, will appear on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee when the web series premieres later this month.

The Seinfeld star, who invites fellow celebrities to join him for a ride in a classic car for the show as they discuss a variety of topics over coffee, was granted the opportunity to chat with the world leader at the White House earlier this month.

The episode, in which they travel in a 1963 Corvette Stingray Split Window Coupe, will debut on 30 December.

“Growing up in the ’60s, my kid dream was always to be an astronaut – doing a comedy show with President Obama in and around the White House felt like going into space,” Seinfeld said in a statement.

“‘How did I get here?’ ‘Is [...]