To a Corvette enthusiast, there may be nothing more frightful than a long-abandoned car.
As we head into the Halloween season, YouTuber Dennis Collins of “Coffee Walk” pulls out all the stops to rescue two more long-ignored Corvettes being “held hostage” at an abandoned spooky-looking old house in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
The latest recipients of his efforts are a 1954 Corvette with a super-rare Pennant Blue paint code, one of just 300 such examples out of a production run of 3,640 units, and a more modern 1976 Corvette Stingray believed to be wearing some of its Medium Blue paint.
You’ve got to have the right tools to get the job done, and in this case, Dennis is super-happy about the team’s earlier decision to go all out with this rescue, bringing in pole saws, chain saws, and even an extendable-arm heavy-duty forklift that prove to be life-savers … and time-savers!
For example, the ’76, which had been abandoned since ’91, might not have made it onto a rollback …