The bond between man and machine in our love affair with the car, and in particular the Corvette, is more or less intimate. Perhaps that attachment is on the more side whenever the man resurrects a Corvette from ashes.
  We photographed Larry Cleveland’s ‘56 one afternoon and never really stripped away the layers. Later, we visited on the phone for more details. Only after we finished our investigation did the walls come down.
  We figured Jerry Palmer, former C4 Corvette designer, knew. He picked this ‘56, of all the cars at the big Labor Day show at the National Corvette Museum, as his "celebrity choice" for an award. When we first saw the car parked on the grounds, with people milling around, Palmer had just walked up and engaged