For four years, Bernie Sachs searched for the right ’57 Corvette fuelie. His phone calls and reconnaissance trips inevitably led to well-used and high-mileage examples, parts cars, or worse. Near the point of giving up, Bernie stumbled across a tip, from a friend of a friend, that a New York City Corvette collector, in the throes of a divorce dilemma, was splitting up his fiberglass investments.
“I met the guy at his Queens factory,” Bernie recalls. “We weaved through the machinery and boxes, and in the back, lined up like soldiers, were about 50 Corvettes, all on concrete blocks. For the previous