@farmerman,
Corvettes are a better choice than Porsche anyway. A large-displacement naturally-aspirated pushrod V8 is pretty much the perfect car engine.
And while putting the engine behind the rear wheels can lead to good performance if the driver is highly skilled, in the hands of an ordinary driver it's a car accident waiting to happen.
When we were coming back from Wyoming for the eclipse, we took the ferry across Lake Michigan. When they were driving the cars off the ferry for people to claim, they rolled about a dozen Corvettes (modern ones) off the ferry. Someone said it was probably some sort of Corvette club going on a tour. There were a lot of jokes in the crowd about trying to claim one of them.