In this installment of Corvette history ... excessive front-end lift (an issue that plagued the early concepts of Frank Winchell). Cooling was also a problem. The narrow body style carried ...

Not only was it the longest, at 15 years, but this Corvette generation ... the car had a lift-off, Targa-style roof, but without the reinforcement of a fixed panel, the body flexed too much.

When fictional porn star Dirk Diggler of Boogie Nights chose his dream car, what else could it have been but a Corvette C3 with a Hurst shifter, a high-lift camshaft and hand-rubbed Competition ...