I was recently reading an article published in the National Corvette Museum’s quarterly “America’s Sports Car: A Publication of the National Corvette Museum” magazine acknowledging that the C4 Corvette will turn 40 this year! It led me to start thinking about this sometimes overlooked entrant into the Corvette family and compelled me to write the piece you are reading now.
For many Corvette enthusiasts my age (a spry, late-forties-something), the C4 was our first introduction to America’s sports car. I had a cousin who had a C3, and I remember that car fondly, but the C4 became the “gold standard” as I was growing up in the eighties, and especially when I started driving in the early nineties. Heck, I went to work for a Chevrolet dealership in 1995, and I was very fortunate to drive a couple examples of the C4 Corvette – including a 1996 Grand Sport – during my time there. Those cars, from 1984 thru 1996 were sleek, they were planted, they were cool, they were…well, CORVETTES.
