One of the curious offshoots of America’s involvement in WWII was the fact that many American GI’s developed a taste for European-style sports cars while overseas. The result of this exposure was a virtual post-war invasion of British and Italian sports cars onto American shores. As often seems the case, the American automobile industry was caught off-guard by this shift in taste. With small manufacturers like MG making inroads in the U.S., a number of large and small manufacturers made…