The most amazing one I know of personally was the one I saw in Coronado Ca. I was going to a friends house and their neighbor was a young couple in their early 30's.  As I walked up the street I saw the shape of a C1 under a car cover.  I lifted it up and sure enough it was what turned out to be a red and white corvette. 

I asked who owned it and it turned out to be this kid.   When the kid told me he owned it and I told him he needed to get this off of the street and into a safe place. 

I asked him what he was going to do with it and he did not know so I gave him my phone number and asked him how he got it.  As it turned out his parent's neighbor that he mowed the lawn for when he lived at home had purchased it for his son for the boys highschool graduation.   He was going to Vietnam. 

There were not a lot of people killed in those early years of the war but he was one of them.  The kid had watched the father and son put the car up on blocks in the fathers garage.  The father took care of his sons car even going to the trouble of putting fuel in it and starting it every few months until he became too old.  As it happened this kid kept in touch with this guy and often stop in to see how they were doing.  One day the father asked him if he would like to have the car. 

The guy told me he need a second car for his wife so he took it.  He did not have money for tires and did not want her to drive it on the old tires and that is why it was parked in the street. 

He didn't know how valuable that car was.   I watched that are covered on the street for a couple of months before it disapeared never new if it was stolen or sold.