A total of 36 Corvettes were left unattended in a garage for 25 years. Now they will see the light of day again.
Peter Max a well-known visual artist has been for the past 25 years the owner of 36 Corvette solitaires. Passionate about Corvette design, when he acquired this collection, it was with the intention of using it in one of his works of art, however, he never got around to doing so. The 36 Chevrolet Corvettes, from the first to the last generation, ended up gathering dust in a garage in New York for 25 long years.The history of the acquisition of this collection is sui generis. Max had already started trying to collect all these models without success. His luck changed when the VH1 channel launched a contest where the winner would win a Corvette each year, from 1953 to 1990, for a total of 36 cars.
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Well, Max didn't win the contest but made an irrefutable offer to the winning competitor. The lucky winner, named Amodeo, shortly after receiving his army of Corvettes, receives a call from Max. The artist has demonstrated his desire to keep that slice of history by proposing a deal that would include $250,000 in cash, plus $250,000 in artwork of his own making, and a percentage of the profit from the resale of the cars, should Max choose to do so.
After all these years, the artist never produced any work with the Corvettes. The dilemma that prevented Max from taking his idea forward has never been mentioned in the first person to this day. However, in informal confessions, he said he expressed willingness to add another 14 years of Corvettes to his 2010 collection.
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Six years have passed and we are still waiting for the work of art… perhaps Peter Max had given in to the fading of time and that meant more work on cars, after so long closed between four walls.
Time was indeed impolite for the 36 Corvettes. In fact, the value of the restoration exceeds that of some copies exceeds its commercial value. These pieces of history are now in the hands of those who want to restore and restore them to their former glory. The new father of the "Vettes" is Peter Heller. With this sale, nobody knows whether Amodeo received his share or not… what really interests us is that this treasure, which has been muffled for so long, makes someone's eyes shine again.
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