True Time Capsule 1954 Corvette Fails To Sell At Auction

In 1959, grocery mogul Richard Sampson gave builders of his latest store, in Brunswick, Maine, a rather unconventional request: they were to entomb a perfectly good, low mileage 1954 Corvette in its own room, lit by two incandescent bulbs, with only a single square window from which to view the car. As Hemmings Daily tells us, the C1 Corvette was…

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True Time Capsule 1954 Corvette Fails To Sell At Auction

In 1959, grocery mogul Richard Sampson gave builders of his latest store, in Brunswick, Maine, a rather unconventional request: they were to entomb a perfectly good, low mileage 1954 Corvette in its own room, lit by two incandescent bulbs, with only a single square window from which to view the car. As Hemmings Daily tells us, the C1 Corvette was…

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