after nearly 10 years the VH1 / Peter Max Corvette collection is getting sold off individually to everyone who isn't a resident of Oregon. That state has specific laws about investors selling cars via raffle

The more recent owners, the Heller and Spindler families, bought the cars from the artist Peter Max, The cars languished in a Midtown garage, until the building was sold and the cars had to be moved.

That was when Mr. Heller encountered Mr. Max. “I was the garage broker who moved the cars to the Flatiron district for Peter,” Mr. Heller said, and then moved them again several years later, when the cars had to be moved out of that garage. They went first to Brooklyn and later to Upper Manhattan. They have since moved yet again, to the Lower East Side.

Real estate investors, including Chris Mazzilli - a comedy club co-owner and Corvette concours judge who also owns a restoration shop on Long Island, is overseeing these Corvettes’ final dispersing

The ravages of time have been especially unkind to the oldest Corvette in the collection. “The ’53 was a basket case,” Mazzilli told Robb Report recently at the LA Auto Show. “We have 4,000 hours in this car.”

One chance to win one of the Corvettes — costs $3. There are discounts for larger purchases: five tickets are $10, 20 tickets go for $25 and so on, up to 7,200 tickets for $5,000, according to the schedule on the Corvette Heroes’ website.

The 36 winners will be chosen at random, said Scott Heller, one of the owners. Another drawing will decide which winner gets which Corvette.

No doubt that will max out the amount of money the current owners can squeeze out of their investment.

Between the moving and storing all the cars, some restoring of all 36 of the Corvettes has occurred.

You may have already had a look at the ’53, ’56, ‘57, ’66, ’67 and ’69 on a tv series on HISTORY Channel, or at the LA Auto Show where KTLA shared how the Corvettes were “rescued” after being housed in New York City parking garages for nearly 25 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/business/peter-max-corvettes-contest.html
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/03/had-you-heard-about-peter-max.html
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/a-long-lost-collection-of-rare-corvettes-will-soon-be-sold-off-for-charity-2887548/
https://www.corvetteheroes.com/