Most people who know me know I am a storyteller; the majority of my collection has a story to tell. I am in my glory spinning yarn about my collection to anyone that will listen. My children who heard my tales a thousand times still love-spending time with me listening to them over and over again as we cruise through my collection from time to time.

The ’71 Corvette is just another story that got added to my spool of yarn and it could be titled “How I met your mother again”. You see I was driving the ’71 Corvette in Mulsanne Blue when Rose and I started dating again the rest is history. So now you know why I am very partial to this model and why it is one of my all time favorite replicas; it brought me the love of my life, my best friend and two wonderful children.

So maybe I am nuts, maybe I never grew up or maybe I just love to spend money? Whatever it is I will continue my love affair as long as I can then pass it on to my children who already started staking claim to dads’ little cars. Who will lay claim to the ’71 Corvette? Already both our children are arguing over it, rightly so; this is the model that represents what started it all for us as a family and one of my favorite models, I wonder why. Now onto the model and “How I met your mother again”.

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It's hard to believe how fast time speeds by; it seems like just yesterday that I was behind the wheel of a 1971 Mulsanne Blue Corvette like the one reviewed here, alas in reality it was 35 years ago. I am not going to pretend I am an expert on this car because I drove one for two years; I’m not. The only thing I remember vividly about this car were the sound, color and the view looking through the valley of those big front fenders while tooling down the highway that held my destiny with Rose.