Gunning was flabbergasted when he inspected the conversion. The stock steering box remains on the left side, with the steering action transmitted to the right side via a Harley-Davidson motorcycle chain and two sprockets bolted under the dash. Obviously, this film car wasn’t meant to be driven hard.
     In the movie, the Corvette is powered by a 350 with an Edelbrock intake and a single four-barrel carb. Sometime after the movie filming, the induction was changed to a tunnel-ram intake with dual-quad Holleys.
     The paint appears to be Candy Apple and applied the old fashioned way in six to eight different layers. The base coat, Gunning says, is gold metallic, then came the candy clears. When the painter removed the tape for the striping, the gold showed through. The technique is simplistic, but has dazzling results, as you can see.
     The Corvette remains pretty much