Forty-five years ago, a Chevy ad campaign sang, “Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet, they go together in the good ol’ USA.”
Some folks might still remember the jingle, and while others will dispute which auto manufacturer belongs at the end of that chain, there’s no denying that Chevrolet, and the Corvette in particular, defined American sports-car motoring for a time.
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