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tyle is fickle. Today’s cool cars can quickly turn
ice cold. Look at custom cars of the 1950s and
1960s. Remember the Pro Street craze? Some
are still cool, others not so much. Customized
cars, even good ones, after they fall out of favor
can take decades to be appreciated again. Kevin Livering of
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has owned this customized, small-
block 1969 Corvette coupe since 1980, when he was a
junior in high school. How he came to be the owner of this
car is quite a story.
In 1979, when Livering was a junior in high school hegot his first car: a white 1973 Monte Carlo with Cragar
mags, swivel bucket seats, a sunroof and an eight-track
tape player. (Nice first-time ride.) The ownership lineage is
a little tricky, but is important to know because it is how a
high school kid was able to get a radical, custom Corvette.
The man Kevin got his Monte Carlo from used to buy
and sell cars. The seller acquired the Monte Carlo when
he sold a custom ’69 Corvette to a local man for cash plus
the ’73 Monte Carlo. A short time after Kevin bought the
Monte Carlo, he saw the former owner that now had the
custom Corvette.CUSTOM 1969 CORVETTE
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The return of the Green Monster
BY SCOTT TEETERS (^) I PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN LIVERING
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