"Pedro, a former city correction officer, was sent careening into a tree when he was 'broadsided' by a cabbie in Queens in 2008. 'I was left there to die,' Pedro told The Post of the accident. 'They had to bring me back to life in the ambulance by pumping on my chest,' Pedro said. 'I broke my hip in two places, broke my back, cracked my sternum, fractured my jaw, broke my knee, broke my ankle, and tore up tons of muscles.'"
"Pedro was told he would never walk again but he found his motivation to prove doctors wrong when he saw a friend put up the Corvette for sale for $36,000. 'I called him up while I still had tubes down my throat and up my nose,' Pedro said. 'I was restoring it every day. I had two friends to help me get up, down, and sit up.'"
Tony Pedro, 65, began restoring a 1957 Corvette while recovering from a 2008 motorcycle crash. He suffered multiple severe injuries and was initially told he would never walk again. The decision to buy and restore the near 600-horsepower teal-blue Corvette gave him the drive to rehabilitate and regain the ability to walk in about six months. Pedro credits the car with saving his life and even received an offer of $250,000 from an interested buyer. Pedro will display the Corvette at the free Oyster Bay car show at Tobay Beach, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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