While Olley was on "Project Opel," rumors reached GM that Ford was working on a similar car to be called the Thunderbird. The Corvette prototype was built in near-record time, by using standard ...

Compared to today's cars ... the Corvette would have had an Italian configuration decades ago. It wasn’t the first iteration of a mid-engined Corvette concept, but the XP-882 of 1976 is the ...