Claim: Buyer who answers unbelievable ad in paper offering a vintage Corvette for a pittance discovers the car belonged to the seller's son, who was killed in Vietnam, and is being offered for so low a price because the bereaved mother has no inkling of the vehicle's true value
Fact-check: The Dead Vet's Vette
Verdict: legend
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Barbara Mikkelson
Date published: 2001-10-18T12:00:00