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Vinnie Pacifico of Massapequa, N.Y., 62, owner of wholesale meat and trucking businesses in New York City, on his 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, as told to A.J. Baime.

When I was 9, I had a neighbor who owned a red 1963 Corvette Sting Ray. I would watch him wash that car. I would watch him drive it down the block. Once he gave me a ride and I was hooked.

In the 1980s, I was visiting my partner’s friend’s place in…