A Farmingdale man defied the odds after being told he would never walk again by restoring a classic hot rod — and now he’s headed to Long Island for a popular car show with a new lease on life.

Tony Pedro, 65, will display the 1957 Corvette he began restoring while recovering from a motorcycle crash on Sunday, when he joins other owners whose wild backstories bring them together for the Oyster Bay car show at Tobay Beach.

“You don’t do these shows just for the cars, you really do it for the people and the stories,” Pedro said of the event, which will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 7

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

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