GRAND ALL OVER AGAIN!
The Sixties was an unusual decade for car makers in America. In an era before serious governmental regulation, designers had very few restraints to work around and thus could make cars that look somewhat futuristic even now, more than 50 years later. The technologies available to manufacturers were rapidly expanding as well, with things like fuel injection and disc brakes being offered on production cars. Despite all this freedom of design and new technology, the labyrinthine and often inscrutable nature of the corporate culture at GM often stifled real innovation, except when it came to the Corvette.
The venerable ’Vette served as a testbed for things to come on the General’s more pedestrian offerings and the Corvette programme’s spiritual advisor and biggest proponent, Zora Arkus-Duntov, made sure
