C5Txfan

I've owned 4 different C2 / 'mid-years' over the past 'too many' years - 3 '65s and 1 '66. At that time the '63 - '67 years were referred to as 'mid-years' .. now for the past several years they are now being called C2's. I still call them 'mid-years' NOT C2 ... does anyone else still prefer the term 'mid-year' instead of C2 ?

groovyjay

Everyone here knows both terms. Usually use C2 online, saves typing but face to face conversations they are still mid years.

wombvette

Midyears only became C2s after GM tacked the name C4 to the 84 up cars. To me they will always be midyears. The 1,2,3,4 designation is supposed to relate to the platform, but the whole thing is screwed up because all 63-82 cars are the second platform, so, the C4 should be C3. Solid and rubber axles, or straight axles, midyears, and sharks.

Frankie the Fink

Don't even get started on C1s. In my mind there are four different flavors of those!
53-55, 56-57, 58-60, 61-62...

Some purists even think that 62 should be by itself as it launched the venerable 327ci engine offering that powered Corvettes for years afterward!

C5Txfan

Yeah ... I knew the numbers were for generations - which is sorta okay in a way ... but still to me doesn't mean as much as 'solid axle' or 'mid-year' to me - and never will even though I have a '04 "C5" .

mrg

C2 makes for convenient shorthand. 'Mid year' having been around for some time seems grandfathered into the lexicon of Corvette speak. Perhaps the same for C1 and/or 'solid axle'. . . Either way guys know which generation is being talked about.

C5Txfan

very true for us 'old farts' that's been around Corvettes for many years .. I would venture to guess that a large portion of the newbies into Corvettes would have a blank stare if you said 'solid axle' years or 'mid-year' to them !

JohnZ

That's OK, they'll learn - no "instant gratification" here that some folks are accustomed to getting elsewhere.

Easy Rhino

I am multi-lingual and can use both terms easily.

jimh_1962

No doubt should the 62 categorized with the rest small engine C1s!

(just kidding around is all)

C5Txfan

UMMM maybe it should be C1 1/2 ...

jimh_1962

C1.49 not close enough to be called a C2

65GGvert

Let's don't get everybody all riled up again. Call them whatever you feel comfortable with and everyone knows what you mean. It's not going to change anyone's opinion to complain. I personally am not going to type out midyear every time. If I wanted to do that, I'd just type the year. Also, which forum are you in now? C2 or midyear?

C5Txfan

True .. but do you have a choice ?

jimh_1962

straight axle and midyear then add BB or SWC, right?

Got to have some fun...

65GGvert

Now that the C7's are out, the C4's are the midyears. Let's change our terminology to midyears for 84-96 cars.

RatDog

I've lusted after a Corvette my whole life but I have to confess that before I joined this forum I had never heard the terms, "mid-year", "C1", "C2"). I had always just referred to cars by their year. However, it only took me about a day and a half on the forum to get up to speed on the nomenclature.

(BTW, I had never heard the terms, "SWC", "BB" or "vert", before joining this forum, either. To date, I still have not come to terms with "vert" <LOL>.)

-- Steve

C5Txfan

hmm then the C2 would be ... early-years and the C1 .. hmm dinosaurs ? nah noway !

65hihp

to me C2 and mid-year are interchangeable.
my preference is solid axle and floppy axle.

ps since no real vettes were made after 67, any thing other than above is irrelevant.

Ron MN Blue

To me there is no "C" anything older than C4. I find it redundant when magazines refer to a 1967 C2. Once you say 1967 nothing else needs to be said. I don't care how anyone else refers to these cars but to me solid axle and mid-years will be how I refer to early
Corvettes.