http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/.../mfvette30.xml
"Untold millions of dollars were spent developing the smooth, compact power units that made their debut in a pair of exotic, mid-engined, Corvette-badged show cars in 1973. They seemed to point to the future but, behind the scenes, GM's engineers were struggling with a technology that was too dirty for the latest emissions regulations and no less thirsty than the gas-guzzling V8 it was intended to replace."
"So, after their show debuts, General Motors effectively buried the two-rotor and four-rotor Corvettes and hoped the world would forget about them. As most people did."
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----Fast forward a decade.----
"...He rang to tell me that the next day they were going to crush a Corvette that had been stored on the roof of his 10-storey building..."
"I went into this enormous lift that would have taken a truck. When it spilt me out at the top I saw this big crate, in which the car had been standing for 10 years. It was absolutely perfect. It even smelt new inside."
"Since 1997 it has been fitted with a Mazda 13B rotary unit."