The late eighties were supposed to be the age of compromise for performance cars, squeezed by fuel prices and emissions rules ...

We found ourselves in the year 1987, where one of the most powerful and fastest cars wasn't a Porsche, Ferrari, or Lamborghini. It was a Chevrolet Corvette with a tuned port injection 350 small block ...

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.