[Windflier]

...after the ‘Stingray’ style body was replaced with the mid 80s ones, I just didn’t ‘see it’ as a Vette.

I know what you mean, but I guess I'm just not a purist about such things. Despite the flattened, sleeker shape of the '84 Vette, I fell in love with the thing anyway. When the styling later began to hearken back to its roots, I loved that too.

About the only Vettes I didn't much care for, were the late 70s, early 80s Vettes without the tail fin. I didn't exactly hate 'em, but they looked disfigured to me.

One sports car that I always thought GM should have built for mass consumption, was the Cadillac Cien:

Unfortunately, it was just a concept car that they used to draw design elements from for other (more watered down) models. GM could have stuck a Corvette badge on that thing, and the public would have gone gaga for it.

[Norm Lenhart]

Impressive looking beast in a 2095 sort of way.

I like the late 70s ear but ya...lack of a spoiler did them no favors. Nor did the smogged 305/350s.

Raced and wiped a couple of them on a freeway with my F250. Acceleration AND top end. Which speaks pretty poorly for “America’s Sports Car” of the era. I won’t mention the 485 HP FE Ford Big block that particular truck had under the hood though... ;)