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Bob & Connie Donnolly, MA
1967 Chevrolet Corvette
MCACN 2025 Triple Diamond Invitational Sponsored by Corvette Central
My wife and I were out for a ride on our motorcycle on a Sunday afternoon in the country approximately 10 years ago. I noticed a convertible top through a window in a garage and I told my wife that’s a corvette. I thought about going back to see what year it was.. So we went looking and couldn’t find the house. After looking on three separate occasions we finally found the house and stopped to talk with the owner for a while and asked if he would be willing to sell the car. He said no. I asked if I could keeping in touch with him and he said sure and we swapped phone numbers. I called several times and stopped by a few times over the next several years.
Finally one day I asked again if he would consider selling the car and he said its hard because he said he had the car longer than his wife. You see he purchased the car from a local guy in 1971 and I did finally but it on June 25, 2022 which was my birthday. The car was bought new from a local Chevrolet dealer in Massachusetts and the first owner had it for four years and the second owner had it for 51 years and the car only had 63K miles. It took me approximately six years keeping in touch with him and he finally said yes.
I decided to restore the car late in 2023. I did most of the work other than the body prep work and painting. Finally completed the restoration in April of 2025. We love the car.
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