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Little Red Corvette

The man who made the Corvette Classic into a legend died Sunday. Zora Duntov (DUN-toff) was a Russian engineer and race car driver. Two years after the first Corvette appeared, Duntov was hired as an engineer at Cheverolet and began changing the Corvette into a "muscle car." He was 86. (1:30) (IN S

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