Bertone Ramarro

The Bertone Ramarro is an Italian concept car designed and built by Bertone on the chassis of a 1984 Chevrolet Corvette (C4), and it debuted at the 1984 Los Angeles Auto Show. Chevrolet gave Bertone the donor car and a port fuel injection V8 engine from the newer 1985 Corvette. The engine stayed mostly stock, but the radiator and air conditioning were moved to the rear, in place of the spare tyre, so that the body could have a tapered, sealed nose for better airflow, and the doors slide forward along the side of the car. The name is the Italian word for a green lizard, echoed in the green paint and the patterned green leather. Nuccio Bertone wanted a car to show in America that carried the Bertone name first, and the Ramarro later won the Car Design Award of the magazine Auto and Design in 1985.