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Corvette Mike New England has been serving the east coast for 20 years (est. 1997) and has moved to a new location to better serve their customers. The new address is:
74 North Main Street
Carver, MA 02330
508-747-8388 (has not changed)
Mike Grande fell in love with Corvettes as a young boy. His youthful interest in Corvettes grew with his age.
In 1981 Mike Grande bought his first Corvette for himself; a 1975 coupe $8,500. Soon after he started attending local Corvette shows on Sundays and meeting other enthusiasts, including many serious collectors who had stables of automobiles. His network of friends and acquaintances began to grow and soon they encouraged him to try making Corvettes a career. By 1990 he was working full-time for a Chevrolet Dealership specializing in Corvette sales. It wasn’t long before General Motors noticed [...]
Marlboro Maroon w/Black interior, L71 427/435hp, 4-spd.
With less than 17,900 original miles (mileage not indicated on the title), this 427/435hp L71 Convertible is comprehensively matching-numbers. It wears 100% of its original, factory-applied Marlboro Maroon lacquer finish over a black interior and matching hard top. A true survivor in every sense of the term, the car rolls on its original factory Uniroyal non-DOT-marked rubber, exhales through its original factory exhaust and retains its original belts, hoses, and even its original spark plug wires after 43 years. With a rare and desirable Tri-Power, solid-lifter big-block V8 engine, the car sports the desirable Muncie M21 close ratio 4-speed manual transmission, the optional 3.55:1-ratio rear axle with posi-traction limited-slip differential and transistorized ignition.
It’s also equipped with Gymkhana heavy-duty suspension, a refinished auxiliary hardtop, and the under-car off-road exhausts. It also has the rare AM/FM radio and the unusual [...]
The next morning, everything was gone.
“The first thing that went through my mind is I walked through the wrong door,” Fischbach said. “When I realized I didn’t walk through the wrong door, I thought the hotel must have had it towed… When they told me they didn’t tow it, I knew somebody stole it. My next call was 911.”
The Corvette, once bound for the Autorama showroom floor, turned up in pieces a few days later in Detroit. “They basically took that and stripped all the parts out of it, and cut it into three pieces and burned it in three different piles,” Fischbach said.
“Every piece on that car is worth a lot of money.”
Southgate police confirmed Tuesday that the department was investigating the incident. Calls were referred to Detective Sgt. Ronald Pongracz, who was unavailable for comment.
A Holiday Inn manager said hotel surveillance video footage showed the 70-foot truck and [...]
Seems like Corvettes are taking a beating out there!
Here’s the thing about traffic rules: they work as long as everyone abides by them. When they don’t, well… things can quickly take a turn for the worse, as this case goes to show.
A reader wrote in with a shocking story of driving his C6 Corvette fastback coupe the better part of a decade ago. He was in his late 20s and had just bought his dream car in DC when the power went out in much of the DC area where he lived.
Traffic lights were working at some intersections but not at others. And for the most part, people knew what to do where the lights were down: treat it like a stop sign. Only the driver of one second-gen Ford Explorer was apparently speeding, and with the lights working at the previous junction, [...]