David and Janet Dennis love their red roadsters, a sleek '62 Corvette, a classic '65 Mustang convertible and a mini-replica of a '60 Corvette, which underwent the same kind of painstaking restoration as its bigger garage-mates.
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A friend found the Dennises' single-seater Corvette on an online sale site and passed the word on to them. Originally bought as a toy for their grandkids, the little Red Corvette was completely restored. A more conventional 2-seat go-kart now serves as the youngsters' ride.
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The Mustang features a floor-mounted automatic shifter and dealer-installed "knee-knocker" air conditioning.
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The Corvette is powered by a period-correct 327 V-8, but a numbers-matching 300 horsepower engine is currently being built to replace the current power plant.
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The beautifully detailed engine bay of the Mustang convertible reveals a copy of Ford's venerable 200-cubic-inch in-line 6-cylinder engine, dressed up by a chrome air cleaner and polished cowl-to-fender struts.
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The flowing rear deck of the '62 Corvette, with its peaked center line and round logo, hint at what was to come the following year: the Sting Ray.
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The Mustang's nose, with the galloping pony in the center of the grille, was the most sought-after Ford offering in the mid-1960s.
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Ford swung away from its traditional round taillights when pen was put to paper on the design of the Mustang, which showed cased vertical-bar taillights and a simple flat rear panel and a center-mounted gas filler.
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The Dennises' Corvette rides on beautiful after-market wire wheels and a set of Coker redline tires.
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Janet wanted her Mustang convertible kept true to its heritage, right down to the flipper-bar factory hubcaps and thin whitewall tires.
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Once the badly rusted floor pans were replaced, the Mustang was treated to a set of "Pony" seat covers and door panels.
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Is there anything racier than a half-arc 160 mph Corvette speedometer topping a shrouded tach, flanked by four accessory gauge pods?
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The whole lineup of Dennis open-top cars includes a blue 2002 Corvette roadster used as a semi-regular daily driver. The others qualify as special-occasion vehicles.
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