designed around those rules. In an era of front-engined Offenhauser-powered brutes, years before the “rear-engine revolution,” Zora’s machine would have stunned the Brickyard. Talk also was made of racing the car at the Pikes Peak hillclimb, and test runs were even made. Then there was a most public of appearances at the 1960 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, where the legendary Sterling Moss made demonstration laps with CERV, a car built by a corporation that feared any negative press associated with racing. No, CERV never did race thanks in part to those corporate fears, but much of the innovation inside the car found its way into the 1963 Sting Ray, the Grand Sport race cars, and even the Can Am cars of the late ‘60s.