HOT PROPERTY
It looks so pure and innocent, doesn’t it? Well, the car itself is innocent enough, but it had at least one owner back in the US who was certainly not on the side of the angels. This Corvette is now in the UK, owned by Adrian Dromey, who tells us the tale.
“The car belonged to an LAPD detective when I heard about it. The story was that this gentleman had been pursuing a major drug dealer in Los Angeles for four or five years before he was finally able to make the arrest, after which the dealer went down for seven life sentences. When he was convicted, his property was seized as proceeds of crime and later auctioned – at which point the detective won the bidding on the Corvette.”
He sounds like our kind of copper – gets the man, pays extra for the car. It
