Love them or hate them, classic cars signify the stepping stones that the automotive industry took to get us where we are today. Still, most of them simply can’t drive as well as modern sports cars.

“In John Deere Green Billy Bob loves Charlene,”and that Joe Diffie song kind of sums up what we have here. It’s not unusual for the editors of Vette magazine to learn of an over-the-top Corvette a man ...