Corvette C3 of the Week
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Martin writes: As a young boy about 11 years old I saw my first Corvette (that I paid attention to) sitting in a parking lot. All I remember was it being the most beautiful car I had ever seen. Since that day the image of that car stuck in my head. As I got older I started looking at the different years and decided on the later C3's. I purchased a 1981 red L48 from a classic car dealer about an hour from where I live. He had it certified and cleaned up and ready to go. I drove it home that day and for the next several days my wife and I had a great time with it around town. I took it into a local body shop to do a small paint repair on the front bumper. The guy at the shop indicated the car was not in as good of condition as I originally thought. I took it back to the dealer and got my money back for it but never lost the bug. Over the next 2 years I continued to look. One day my daughters friend's father and his daughter came by to pick up my daughter and he noticed another classic car I had in my garage (1964 Pontiac Parisienne - Canadian car). We got talking and one thing led to another and as it turned out he had a 1980 C3 in his garage he was looking to sell. I took the car out for a run and to a local garage to put it on a hoist. The car was so clean, I could not believe it. We finally reached a deal and I took it home. Since then I have done a lot of work to it to get it the way I wanted the car. It is now our weekend cruiser, never winter driven and always stored in our garage. This is my 1980 L48 with approx 40,000 Miles, (60,000
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