“It was my basic curiosity from being a professor. I wanted to know more, I wanted to know how big the breadbasket was, so I started a quest for knowledge.” First sports car in America, it was the Corvette, right? Wrong. Okay, then the firstfiberglass car in America, that was the Corvette, right?
Uh-uh.
All right, then the Corvette was at least the firstfiberglass-bodied postwar American sports car powered by a six-cylinder engine. Gotta be, right?
Nope.
Students of automotive history will likely recall the Kaiser Darrin, maybe even the Woodill Wildfire or the Glasspar G2, as Corvette predecessors, but Geoff Hacker is no mere student of automotive history. Rather, he’s more like a professor of it, with a concentration in postwar sports cars, fiberglass cars, sport customs and other…