Restored ’59 Has Its Own Tales To Tell
By Scott Ross
Photography by Dino Petrocelli

We call the home of this restored C1 “The Land of Oz” for three simple reasons. The first one is obvious–owner Marc Osmun’s home in Fulton, New York is located a short drive north of Chittenango, the hometown of Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum.

The second is the story that Marc told us about the ’59′s history, one that even the imagination of L. Frank Baum never dreamed of when he wrote about yellow-brick roads. For openers, Marc says that much of the ’59s ownership history is difficult to trace until the time that his friend, Larry Barnes, bought it from Ronald Ajemian, owner of the Liverpool Country Club at the time. Ron had owned it for 20 years and purchased it from David Niles Rosen in March of 1977. “I received a box full of receipts, registrations, and restoration photos with the car that took me a while to sort out and categorize,” Marc says. “I traced it back to the guy who he bought it from. My best guess is that there have been four to five owners, including myself.” Outside of the frame-off restoration that it received in 1982, its build date at St. Louis Assembly (November 21, 1958) and its original selling dealer (Marsh Hallman Chevrolet in Albany), little else was known about the car’s history.

Via: Corvettefevercom