There aren’t too many people in this state who can convincingly wear the tag “Corvette Specialist,” or who could pick a vintage Stingray out of a lineup, let alone get behind the wheel of one.

But Democratic State Committee Chairman (and Passaic County Democratic Committee Chair) John Currie can.

That’s the chairman pictured above at Hawthorne Chevrolet in a newspaper ad from 1976, the same year Jimmy Carter defeated Gerald Ford to win the presidency.