In late March, a federal court in Illinois granted summary judgment for a luxury car auctioneer in a disgruntled buyer’s lawsuit premised on an allegedly fake Corvette.The Corvette aficionado plaintiff in Pardo v. Mecum Auction Inc., 2017 WL 1217198, alleged the auction company misrepresented that a cobbled-together 1964 Corvette was an original 1967 Corvette — the vehicle plaintiff believed he was buying. The lawsuit sounded in common-law fraud and breach of contract. The court previously dismissed the fraud …