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If you’ve been looking for the snazziest vintage car, you get ineterested in one of three very prized Corvettes — edition, 156, 1957 and 1958 respectively—that would be up for auction at the upcoming Bloomington Gold High Performance Auction, June 27-28 in St. Charles, Illinois.  All three Corvettes have a rich history behind it and was previously owned by famed vintage cars collectors like Tom Harmer of Rockford, Illinois and Gene Morton, who had to bring them to Alaska just in order to protect them. The 1955 serial number one car was the first production Corvette to offer a high performance V-8 engine. The 1956 serial number one car was the first redesigned Corvette produced by Chevrolet and the 1957 serial number one car was the very first high performance model Corvette to come off the assembly line. For more information about the auction, please visit this site.(image from http://www.musclecarclub.com/ )

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Corvette Z06 has actually been a closet fuel miser, but few people have known the reality. The Z06 is the current king of the hill ‘Vette, with a tire-shredding 500 horsepower on tap, and managed an impressive trip average of 23.4 mpg…a fast car is not automatically a gas hog.

Why is a Z06 a good buy when it comes to gas?

It’s science at work here. Weight and aerodynamic drag are two primary enemies of fuel efficiency, which explains why heavy, blunt-faced, traditional sport utility vehicles and minivans generally suck down fuel and the sleek, relatively light-weight Z06 burns conservatively.

So if you are the 40 something or 50 something baby boomer accused of buying a Corvette because of a mid-life crisis, you can retort by pointing out your Corvette gets more miles-to-the-gallon than your buddy’s Land Rover or minivan.