It Was a Very Good Year

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By Jim Hagarty
I saw this beautiful 1979 Chevy Corvette in a parking lot yesterday so had to jump out of my car and photograph it. The car is in excellent shape and the paint job is stunning. As I was admiring it, the owner came along and told me the man who repainted the car used the original colour and removed the entire body piece by piece to paint it. The roof panels are removable for storage in the trunk. I was reading yesterday that the Corvette has been one of the biggest success stories for General Motors over the years, with almost two million sold.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.