Hemmings Classic Car

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“I don’t see the point of pains-takingly recreating mediocrity unless the car is going into a history museum.”

YEARS AGO, when I was doing the how-to segments on , we featured a mid-Sixties Corvette that had been incredibly, pains-takingly restored to factory new. I had never seen such a precise restoration. The owner went to great lengths to make sure that there was just the right subtle ripple in the paintwork, and that there was the correct amount of overspray on the chassis.

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