This is a Corvette of throwbacks. The Stingray name (nee Sting Ray) was pulled off Chevrolet's flagship sports car after 1976, but has returned to this radically restyled C7-chassis Corvette. The LT-1 engine is also a new design featuring variable valve timing—a first for GM's pushrod V8s—but pulls the name from the iron block motor of decades ago.
It's kept …