a damn shame (Corvette fans, it's not pretty)

[gold-n-rod]

:(

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/automobiles/collectibles/14corvette.html?hpw

[fegettes]

Yup, years of dust there. I suppose he could have at least covered them.

[VetteLT193]

Why a shame? sounds like he's finally going to do something with them. It's about time :shades:

[mrfixxall]

i know where theirs some more like this,,what a shame and the people wont do anything with them!!

[silverghost]

Peter Max is going to paint the corvettes Psycedellic rainbow colors like all his other so-called "ARTWORK" !
He should paint himself instead & leave the cars alone !
Should be tarred & feathered !
Expect to see them for sale at a future Barrett~Jackson Auction at insane prices !
Reminds me of the John Lennon & Liberace Rolls~Royces !
He may be an "Artist" but he has no taste for fine & rare automobiles !
Another member of "The More Money Than Brains Crowd !"

[silverghost]

There is an old guy (90) in NJ that has 25 Brass-Era Antique cars in a much worse condition.
He once owned a very large high-end furniture store chain.
His cars are all rare~
No run-of-the-mill Model "T" s there~
All high-end rare early cars. Steamers, Winton, Mercer, Cole, Otto etc.
He had them restored, or bought others restored or original, in the 60s-70s.
His storage building is not heated & the roof leaks badly now.
None of the cars run now and all were pulled partially apart in his attempt to "Fix them" after they stopped running. Parts are all over the place and in & on the cars. Thats how they now sit.
He will not sell any, His family could care less about the cars.
Few get to view them.
I and and an old friend got a rare chance to look at them about a year ago after we found a curved dash Olds in a PA barn that is similar to one in his "collection"
When I went home, after viewing the cars, I was depressed for weeks.
It makes you want to cry.
Sadly there are tales of collections like this all the time.
There was a very famous Stutz collector A.K. Miller who had a hoard of rare cars & parts that was auctioned years back. Most of these were in chicken coops, & sheds with bad roofs, and sitting on damp dirt floors! I was there ! Parts of two Model "J' Dusenbergs sat all over the place. He had $ 600 K in cash & gold coins buried on his propety !
Do web search for A. K. Miller Stutz hoard auction!
Lots pf web articles on AK Miller !