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Kelly Chevrolet Corvette by Vignale

Picture the scene: It’s the early Sixties and you are a professional designer, if not a name above the title star. You have talent, but you’re unsure how to realise your ambition of creating an exotic-looking super-GT. If your name was Gordon Kelly, you simply flew from Wisconsin to Turin and rocked up unannounced at every styling studio and until you found one willing to take you seriously. What’s more, you did so despite not being able to speak Italian.

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