MYTH BUSTING

Judging by past speculatory magazine articles, a mic-engine Corvette had been in the works nearly as long as the car has had a V-8. Road & Track’s role in this fantastical vision goes back to at least 1967. Inside GM, though, not so much.

-  -MIKE AUSTIN

“A long time ago, we did a few show cars, just fanciful stuff, not based _in reality, with no production plans at all,” says Tadge Juechter, the retired Corvette boss who finally oversaw the mid-engine switch for the C8 generation. “But internally, there hadn't been