Martel Souter once told me that paying big money for a matching-numbers Corvette without documentation was like using somebody else’s toothbrush - you might be okay, but you don’t know for sure right now.
     If you want the skinny on the Corvette market, all you’ve got to do is ask Martel, who’s been buying and selling Corvettes since 1969. “Think back to the late 1960s,” Martel instructed me as we talked about Corvettes at his Classic Motor Cars in Lubbock, Texas. “The Straight Axle cars were neat and everybody liked them. Buzz and Todd drove them in Route 66 and they were cool. But then, golly, here comes that 1963 Sting Ray and everybody just went nuts. As the 1960s wound down, the ‘68 Mako Shark came out and everybody had to have a T-top Corvette.”
     We went over the market for the