After a while, I could have him torpedoed, as was always happening to corvettes.

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New Corvettes are tough, lightweight, rock-solid machines, immune to the cowl shake that plagued older models.

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And yet, CAFE exists to encourage the sale of Geo Metros and discourage the sale of Corvettes.

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And when it reopens, workers will turn out only 15 Corvettes an hour, down from 18 and a half.

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Apart from the submarines, 35 corvettes and 15 frigates will be ordered.

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Platts grew up working with his uncle on vintage Corvettes and Camaros, and he just ordered a grabber-blue 2011 Ford Mustang GT 5.0.

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It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads along the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

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It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads around the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and chrome portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

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