| In one of the most odd ball stories involving | | | | the news in regards to these Vettes, some |
| Corvettes ever, last month a collection of | | | | began to believe that the collection was lost |
| Corvettes that is owned by artist Peter Max was | | | | forever. However, Max said that he had simply |
| lost but then found. How you lose 36 Corvettes is | | | | moved them and they now reside under a |
| truly a mystery, but it did in fact happen and the | | | | parking garage in Manhattan New York in an old |
| story leaves all Vette fanatics to scratch their | | | | newspaper building. |
| heads and wonder. | | | | The most disturbing part of the story is that Max |
| The Corvettes were from a contest that the | | | | simply stored the vehicles and that's it. He didn't |
| music video channel VH1 originally held back in | | | | even use any car covers which would explain the |
| 1989 in which the television station gave away 36 | | | | layers upon layers of thick dust that now adorns |
| Corvettes in a random drawing. The winner of | | | | all the Corvettes. There were even a few that |
| the contest received one Corvette for each year | | | | had some significant damage on them which was |
| of production, or a 1953 Corvette all the way up | | | | probably caused by movers who simply did not |
| to a 1989 Corvette. The winner sold the collection | | | | care about the Corvettes. |
| to Max for $250,000 cash, another $250,000 in | | | | Max says that he still intends to do something |
| art work and a percentage of all future sales of | | | | with the Corvettes and that he had good |
| the Vettes with a cap of $1 million and then went | | | | intentions with the purchase, but never got |
| on his marry way. | | | | around to his idea. Now he is claiming that if he |
| Max said that he bought the collection of | | | | does go through with the project that he will |
| Corvettes so that he could design them with his | | | | even add another 14 years to the collection which |
| wild art work and then he planned on touring with | | | | will bring it up to the year 2003. |
| them and eventually selling them off one by one. | | | | Also rumored now is a documentary to be done |
| Max then put the Vettes in a basement parking | | | | on the mysterious vanishing and then |
| garage in Brooklyn New York and forgot about | | | | reappearance of the collection of Corvettes. It |
| them; literally. | | | | just seems such a shame to have so many |
| Over 20 years later and what was a great idea | | | | wonderful Corvettes just dry rotting away in a |
| from the artist turned out to be a forgotten | | | | basement, but then again if you have the money |
| project. While nothing was ever talked about in | | | | to do so you can pretty much get away with it. |