ELIDA – The telephone call was a surprise, but welcome news. Years ago Barry Crites, of Elida, had worked with a man in Indiana who owned a 1957 Corvette. “It was one nice car.

The highlight of course is the bespoke 18-inch forged alloy wheels with a phone-dial design inspired by the 156 GTA.

This previous-generation BMW Z4 has been retrofitted with an Alfa Romeo grille, emblems and a matching set of phone-dial wheels, causing the car identification part of our brains to malfunction.