CORVETTE A FERRARI... WITH FRIES

Twenty nineteen marks the 50th anniversary of the US being the first country to put a man, Neil Armstrong, on the Moon. But as long ago in the black-and-white-picture past as that seems, that was still nine years after General Motors showed its first prototype for a mid-engined sports car, the CERV 1. That could make the arrival of the mid-engined C8 the longest wait in automotive history.

OK, so it wasn’t badged a Corvette back then, and neither was the CERV 2 which followed in 1964 – the first mid-engined Corvette concept, the Reynolds alooominum show car, was shown in 1972. But both were developed and informed Chevy’s thinking by GM engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, who was christened The Father of the Corvette. He used every shred of his knowledge and skill to make it the everyman