1989 Corvette Roadster

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Check this out! Only 44k actual miles on this 37-year-old roadster and it shows. One of 2904 bright red convertibles made in 1989 and I would speculate that few of them came off the production line with a white soft top. Introducing the iconic 1989 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, a true American classic with a powerful 5.7 tune port injected V8 engine. This rocket was racing around during the era of the techno boom with cultural benchmarks like the inception of : The World Wide Web, The Simpsons, Seinfeld debuted on July 5, Madonna won Best Direction for Express Yourself, Guns N’ Roses won Best Heavy Metal Video for Sweet Child O’ Mine, The Little Mermaid, Batman, the first GPS satellite, Nintendo Game Boy, HDTV, Intel 80486 microprocessor, Stephen R. Covey published "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People".
With its sleek and sporty design, this Corvette is sure to turn heads wherever you go or you can just stow it away like the last family did. Who bought it new by the way. The car has been in storage for many years. The red exterior finish, red carpet and red leather bucket seats still have that showroom luster. Included with this time capsule is a factory hardtop with the same lustrous matching red finish. The car sits on factory alloy wheels with factory spec P275/40Z R17 Goodyear tires.

The Quotes of 1989
“If you build it, he will come.” — the whispered voice heard by Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, one of the most quoted lines in baseball cinema, though the voice’s source is never definitively established in the film

“I’m Batman.” — Michael Keaton in Batman, a line delivered with such quiet authority that it settled immediately into the cultural lexicon

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” — Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society, a film about an unconventional English teacher who produced both this frequently quoted line and a generation of people who stood on desks

“I’ll have what she’s having.” — Estelle Reiner, at the table next to Meg Ryan’s famous deli scene in When Harry Met Sally, a line improvised by director Rob Reiner’s mother and widely considered one of the best punchlines in romantic comedy history

“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” — Partnership for a Drug-Free America, in an anti-drug campaign so memorable that the frying egg became a permanent cultural reference

“Eat my shorts.” — Bart Simpson, The Simpsons, which premiered December 17, 1989, on Fox


Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
Mikhail Gorbachev was named Man of the Year for the second time in 1987. The 1989 selection recognized his role in the transformation of Eastern Europe: the peaceful revolutions in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Romania that swept communist governments from power, almost entirely without Soviet military intervention. The contrast with 1956 and 1968, when Soviet tanks had crushed similar movements, was not lost on anyone.
The Berlin Wall Falls
On the evening of November 9, 1989, an East German government spokesman, Günter Schabowski, held a press conference and, in response to a question, announced that new regulations allowing East Germans to travel freely to the West would take effect “immediately, without delay.” Schabowski had been given the briefing note shortly before the press conference and had not been informed that the regulations were not yet finalized. He had no idea he had just opened the border.

East Germans watching the press conference on television went immediately to the crossing points. Border guards, who had received no orders, eventually stood aside. People began crossing freely into West Berlin for the first time since 1961. Others began dismantling the Wall with hammers and picks. By morning, the most visible symbol of the Cold War was coming apart.

The fall of the Wall was followed by the reunification of Germany, completed on October 3, 1990. It marked the practical end of the Cold War, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and the beginning of the political transformation of Eastern Europe that occupied the following decade.
Tiananmen Square
From April through June 1989, pro-democracy protesters — primarily students — gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and in cities across China in what became the largest protests against the Chinese government since the founding of the People’s Republic. On June 3-4, the Chinese government declared martial law and deployed military forces with tanks and live ammunition. The official Chinese government death toll was declared to be 200-300; internal documents leaked decades later suggest the military itself estimated approximately 10,000 civilian deaths, though Western estimates generally range from hundreds to several thousand. The true number has never been established.

Most Popular TV Shows of 1989
1. The Cosby Show (NBC)
2. Roseanne (ABC)
3. Cheers (NBC)
4. A Different World (NBC)
5. America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)
6. The Golden Girls (NBC)
7. 60 Minutes (CBS)
8. The Wonder Years (ABC)
9. Empty Nest (NBC)
10. Monday Night Football (ABC)












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