This sports car never went into series production, but it shaped the design of the C5 series Corvette and was discovered and restored a few years later. The sports car was produced as a prototype for the first production model of the Chevrolet Corvette, the Corvette SS, in 1983 and was an influential part of the Chevrolet design process.
Jeremy George Lake Charles After a series of impromptu exterior revisions of what the Corvette would look like, a small Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, was moved, images of a new Corvette design were acquired, and the redesigned Corvette reached the showroom floor.