I graduated from high school in 1984, and by that time every car freak in America had spent a couple of years reading frenzied articles about the all-new C4 Corvette in every publication imaginable.

Before the official press unveiling of the 1984 Corvette in March 1983, anticipation for the new Corvette was at a fever pitch. Chevrolet announced that there would be no official 1983 model; rather ...