By Sean Fitz-Gerald
Noted jokester President Obama has already been featured on Zach Galifianakis’s Between Two Ferns, Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, and the White House’s Comedy Thing, so a car-and-coffee date with Jerry Seinfeld was more or less inevitable. To kick off the seventh season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Seinfeld took a trip to the White House, where he and POTUS tried to drive a 1963 Corvette Stingray as far as possible and chatted about mostly professional topics. It was all pretty safe, but still delightful. Roll the episode, which debuted Wednesday night, and scope out the highlights below:
Original article: http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/obama-comedians-in-cars-getting-coffee.html
“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 [...]
