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Corvette fifty years official anniversary hardback book by randy leffingwell. On sunday the morning of july 16th, i celebrated owning my 1961 corvette for 50 years. Scott teeters has been telling the corvette story for the last ten years in his monthly column feature for vette magazine entitled, the illustrated corvette series. The 50th anniversary corvette convertible at corvette mikes is a well maintained california car and comes equipped with a 6speed manual. Production variants include the high performance z06. Racing variants include the c5r, a 24 hours of daytona and 24 hours of le mans gtsgt1 class winner.
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