Perentti: the Claytons Corvette
With the body of a Corvette and the heart of a Holden, it was a kind of Claytons Corvette – or maybe that should be Bayswater Corvette, seeing as that was the Melbourne suburb where these home-grown V8 muscle coupes were made back in the eighties. It was an ingenious concept, a serious attempt at offering an affordable high-performance Australian sportscar within the constraints of what Australian government regulations would allow, and it did achieve a level of sales success. For all that, it’s a car that remains surprising little-known today; more than 40 years after it broke cover at the Sydney Motor Show, the name Perentti seems to have ended up somewhat lost in the mists of time.
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