SECOND CHANCE AT FIRST LOVE

SO MANY OF US CAN RE- late to the story of having to give up a favorite car, then spending years pining to rekindle the feeling it gave us; few are committed enough to bring that very car back into their lives, and to make it even better than it originally was. That is the basic story behind the 1969 Stingray on these pages, but this Chevrolet — daily-driven nearly 150,000 miles, sold and later re-purchased, and restored with personal touches — represents so much more to its owners. “Goldie” is a dream, twice fulfilled.

Mike Markowski was nine years old when he saw his first Corvette: It was a new, 1956 roadster in Cascade Green with beige coves, and it made a lasting impression. He’d admired a fellow high school student’s 1965 Sting Ray coupe, and been blown away by the third-generation model, introduced for 1968.