Car enthusiasts: what model is this Corvette?

[Brunch@Five]

saw this one around the corner from my flat, supposedly for sale:





sick car IMO

[DukeDelonte13]

kinda looks like a heavily customized early eighties corvette. It's definitely in that "crossfire injection" generation. One of my buddies has one.

[~primetime~]

69 Stingray

https://www.google.com/search?q=corv...=isch&imgdii=_

[Brunch@Five]

69 Stingray

https://www.google.com/search?q=corv...=isch&imgdii=_

that's what I thought at first, but the one on the OP is a hatchback...

[Nanners]

i think thats a stingray with an aftermarket bodykit

[bigkingsfan]

2014 Junk

[DukeDelonte13]

this is an 82 corvette.

[MadeFromDust]

That would fall under the general category of a C3 vette

[nightprowler10]

this is an 82 corvette.

I'm drooling here.

[gts]

it's a heavily modified 79 or earlier looking at the bumpers somewhere between 75-79

[9erempiree]

Too bad it is not original.

It became Euro trash with the aero kit.

Leave the Euros to F up a very beautiful car.

[MadeFromDust]

The C3 vettes are actually slow as shiite, make no power, and too heavy despite fiberglass body, totally undesirable vehicles -_-

[Thorpesaurous]

I would guess 69 too based on the rolled rear window. That was the first year of that rolled window. My father had a 68 convertible, and that had what they called the sugar scoop window, where the windshield itself was flat, but it had sides that ran off the body to make it look like a sugar scoop.

But 69 through about 73 or so I can't really tell the difference. I know my father had the same squeeze trigger door handles that are on this one, that's what makes me think 69. The little air vent along the front fender just before the door I know is a giveaway for a lot of people, as are the taillights, but I don't them that well. And that whole rear end, with the rolled spoiler and lipped rear wheel well appear to be total body kit items.

Personally my favorites are the 63, but it's gotta be the hard top because it's got the split rear window. Otherwise 63 - 66 look pretty much the same.

And I like the 56 mostly because my father has one.

[johndeeregreen]

I would guess 69 too based on the rolled rear window. That was the first year of that rolled window. My father had a 68 convertible, and that had what they called the sugar scoop window, where the windshield itself was flat, but it had sides that ran off the body to make it look like a sugar scoop.

Absolutely not a '69. '69 have chrome front and rear bumpers, shark gill fender louvers, much sleeker curves, "Stingray" badging, and basically don't have much in common with that car.

Note the many differences here:



As mentioned, that appears to be like a '78-'82 C3. Whatever it is, it's a total piece of shit and chances are whatever you're driving right now would blow it off the road.

[johndeeregreen]

The C3 vettes are actually slow as shiite, make no power, and too heavy despite fiberglass body, totally undesirable vehicles -_-

Not entirely true. In '69, the big blocks got up to 435hp/460lb/ft, with the standard 327 being 300hp/380ft/lb. Power didn't completely evaporate until the mid-70s.