Keith Richard Litavsky returned from the Vietnam War with two Purple Hearts for his service to the United States, and celebrated his return home by purchasing his dream car: a 1967 C2 Corvette Sting Ray.
When Litavsky passed away in 1993 from cancer, his son Matt took ownership of the 1967 Corvette and continued to care for the car his father loved dearly. Now, his son has sent the Corvette to a new home and it fetched a lofty $675,000 sale price, according to USA Today.
The C2 Corvette houses just 8,533 miles on the odometer after Matt’s father seldom drove the car and cared for it meticulously.
“It was very exciting but also very, very difficult,” to part with the car, said its owner, Matt Litavsky. “It was all kind of a haze.” He drove it 15 miles during his 15-year-long ownership.
The Corvette’s new owner gave Litavsky peace of mind, however. He said the blue Corvette isn’t going anywhere and he can come visit the special car anytime.
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In 7 years, the time it takes a baby to complete 1st grade, the American War in Vietnam will have been finished for half a CENTURY.
Have you been to visit Vietnam lately? Have you seen the children running about with USA-flag t-shirts? Have you spoken to the generation of young Viets, nearly every one of whom can speak fluent English? Have you stayed at the hotels and eaten at the restaurants that are half-owned by Americans (and Brits and Italians and Germans and Chinese).
Have you sat with a Viet and had them tell you the stories of what happened after the Americans left? Have you heard that Russia, in 1976, ordered every last grain of rice sent to Moscow, promised to return Vietnams “fair share” and then assumed the Viets were as corrupt as a Russians and never kept the promise to send some rice back? Did you know Vietnam had a famine in 1976-77 that killed more Viets than the American War and the French War combined. Ask a Viet to tell the history of Russia in Hanoi, and stand well back.
History, s’funny which parts we know.
Go eat at the Italian restaurant in Saigon. Know this – the founder brought special Italian cows to Vietnam, bought farming property up in the hills at the correct altitude same as in Italy, and supplies all the milk his restaurant needs to be perfect. Or try the finest Texas ribs you will ever taste, in Hanoi.
I forgot – all this luxury and service at a far higher quality than you will get in Tokyo or Hong Kong – at half the $US price, and you can use $US while you’re there.
Thought we were talking about a corvette
Putting the PC Card out there?
What, I’m not ‘allowed’ to say what I want where I want?
S’funny how people who used to say “PC is bad” have changed their tune into “I thought this article was about x”
Because of the anti-PC warriors of the 2000-2016 years, there are no ‘safe spaces’ anymore, not even for GM fans. Get over yourself snowflake.