Respectfully, Doug, a fiberglass tube with a V8 at one end is not a sports car. All the horsepower does is win drag races - it isn't fun to take on twisty roads to Ensenada and back, like a classic MG or a Morgan, or a Triumph TR-6 or an Alfa Romeo "graduate"- or a Fiat 124 or an X-19.
Take your 1,000 horsepower beast to the quarter mile and enjoy - but that's not a sports car.
Chainmail, I am sorry that your only experience with Corvettes was with a ‘79 model. That was not much of a car. Detroit had kind of lost their way in the late seventies. You should go take a new model for a test drive. The new ones are engineering marvels with bodies made of carbon fiber composites and aluminum. They will corner at well over one G-force while the cars that you listed would be lucky to pull .75 Gs. A trip to Ensenada would be fun in the cars you named but it would be heart pounding exhilaration in a new ZR1. No comparison. Not even close. You could remove most of the sparkplugs from the Corvette and it would still beat all of the cars you listed simply by cornering ability alone. The new Corvettes would probably be considered supercars if not for the stigma of low price and mass production.