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Written by Derek Shiekhi
When you think of the C3 Chevrolet Corvette, where do you picture it? At a car show in an Applebee’s parking lot? Zooming down a country road in Texas? Rolling slowly as a part of the Woodward Dream Cruise?Even if you don’t envision the third-generation ‘Vette in any of those settings, it’s highly likely that you don’t picture it in Iceland, either. However, that’s the home of the white C3 you see here, courtesy of Petrolicious.Its path to Iceland started back in the 1970s, when a young car-obsessed Sigf s B. Sverrisson saw a Corvette in a Howard Johnson parking lot during a trip to the US. From that point on, Sverrisson was determined to own a Corvette of his own. He eventually did…then he sold it.The amount of money he lost or gained in the sale is unknown, but he certainly came out of the transaction with one thing: regrets. Actually, two things: regrets and an eventual desire to buy another Corvette. He ended up getting the 1982 model you see here. Sverrisson enjoys it for the obvious reasons, such as the looks and sound, but he also enjoys it because of the bewilderment it causes. As you can imagine, a lot of his fellow citizens don’t know exactly what they’re looking at when they see Sverrisson’s car. Some of them know it’s a Corvette, but don’t know that Chevrolet makes it.What we know is that Chevy (and love of America’s sports car) makes the world a smaller place.Chime in with your thoughts on the forum. >>Follow @derekshiekhiTags: C3, classic, Corvette, Video
Date written: November 29, 2016
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ID: 5941
When you think of the C3 Chevrolet Corvette, where do you picture it? At a car show in an Applebee’s parking lot? Zooming down a country road in Texas? Rolling slowly as a part of the Woodward Dream Cruise?Even if you don’t envision the third-generation ‘Vette in any of those settings, it’s highly likely that you don’t picture it in Iceland, either. However, that’s the home of the white C3 you see here, courtesy of Petrolicious.Its path to Iceland started back in the 1970s, when a young car-obsessed Sigf s B. Sverrisson saw a Corvette in a Howard Johnson parking lot during a trip to the US. From that point on, Sverrisson was determined to own a Corvette of his own. He eventually did…then he sold it.The amount of money he lost or gained in the sale is unknown, but he certainly came out of the transaction with one thing: regrets. Actually, two things: regrets and an eventual desire to buy another Corvette. He ended up getting the 1982 model you see here. Sverrisson enjoys it for the obvious reasons, such as the looks and sound, but he also enjoys it because of the bewilderment it causes. As you can imagine, a lot of his fellow citizens don’t know exactly what they’re looking at when they see Sverrisson’s car. Some of them know it’s a Corvette, but don’t know that Chevrolet makes it.What we know is that Chevy (and love of America’s sports car) makes the world a smaller place.Chime in with your thoughts on the forum. >>Follow @derekshiekhiTags: C3, classic, Corvette, Video
Date written: November 29, 2016
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 5941
