Harly Earl who endeavored to bring the European Sports Car to the American Motor Car Arena created this very beautiful but quite tame 6 cylinder  2 carburetors, fiberglass,  "Blue Flame" Engined  Corvette. The car, through the perseverance of the legendary Duntov, evolved into the 327 cu in 5363 cm cu 360 Hp V 8   with independent rear suspension; first finned drum brakes, then disc; first twin carbs then fuel injection carburetion; 4 speed close ratio manual transmission  firebomb which in 1963 was already  holding its own in “A-Production SCCA races"  among the most prestigious European marques as Ferrari, Jaguar XKE and Aston Martin, and accelerating to 60 mph in just over 4 seconds.

All this at half the price.  It rightly earned the pseudonym: “ Tiger in a tuxedo.”