W
e humans are wonderfully nostalgic creatures. Michael
Sabo’s face lights up when he talks about his past. “My
first Corvette was a ’63 roadster (that) I constantly
worked on throughout my senior year of high school,”
he says. (His father, Frank, owned a Sunoco station in Catawissa,
Pennsylvania.) “Most of my money went to parts, upkeep and gas.
Sunoco 260 was 51 cents a gallon!”
It wasn’t a long affair though.
“During my junior year at Penn
State I married the most beautiful
woman I ever met,” he continues.
You know where this is going; a
Corvette isn’t exactly a family car.
So Michael sold his beloved road-
ster to give his new brood the best
chances. But despite having to
drive rusty heaps in the meantime,
he’s the first to admit that it was a
wise investment. “After 2 1/2 years
of marriage we had our first child,
followed by three more every two
years.” He also got four grandkids
out of the deal.
There’s a common narrative
arc in the collector-car market.
Michael’s goes like this: “When all
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