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CORVETTE IN PARADISE

The good news about all the abandoned and forgotten cars out there is that they still exist. Whether it’s an out-of-sight barn find or a hidden-in-plain-sight field car (like this 1958 Corvette), these neglected treasures are still out there, and many of them are being found and resurrected back to their former glory—or beyond, and this big-block-powered C1 Corvette from Oahu, Hawaii, definitely delivers.

The Corvette was discovered in 2014. Car designer Samuel Kuaana from Nanakuli, Hawaii, had heard about an older man who had many Corvettes scattered around his property in the town of Wahiawa, Hawaii. When he visited,

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