Remember my Corvette? The sad, 1985 grand tourer that I just couldn’t stop myself from buying last fall? If you’ve forgotten, I forgive you. For most of the winter, I forgot about this poor car, too.

The only criterion Shane had with the search was that it had in some way to be Bow-Tie-flavored, which was a brand preference ingrained in him at an early age. "I grew up in a GM family, working on ...