Corvette
sage," John laughs. "Okay, bring him over and we’ll see what
he thinks."
In fact, Jerry Palmer, who preceded Cafaro as Chief Corvette
Designer, is still heavily involved with the C6. Designer types are real car
people. Cafaro admits to owning a Ferrari 308 and a 1965 Morgan sports car,
although Corvettes remain his favorite. He remembers going to the New York World’s
Fair when he was a kid and seeing the Mako Shark, which he thought was the "ultimate
car and the ultimate machine." Today, John is "in and out of
C5s." So if anybody would have a Z06 convertible, rounding up the usual
suspects would include Cafaro. The C5 was his baby.
Cafaro explained how the car was born. "I just felt
like the Z06 was a great package, but what could be done to a Z06? I thought,
