rcallen484

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Will you please accept my apology?

tuxnharley

Not hurt, actually got a good laugh out of (at) it! Truce?

rcallen484

Truce You gotta admit, the '61 and '62 above definitely had the C1 front and the C2 rear---thus they were C1.5

Supersonic 427

Chevrolet first used the small round tail lights in '58 skipped '59 and had them again from 1960-'65. The cheaper models Biscayne and Belair had two lights, the Impala's had 3. One mod in the '60's was to add a third tailight on Corvettes.

Jinx

There is still a good point here -- Corvair got multiple round taillights and the perimeter body line before the production Corvette Sting Ray did. And in a sense it got those elements from a prior Corvette.

Much like the Camaro's twinned taillamps are a callback of prior Corvettes (and prior Camaros that were also reflecting still-earlier Corvettes), and the new C7 continues the evolution.

All that is old is new again, or something.

Jinx

I always thought it strange that C1 included both 53-57 and 58-62. The 58-62 seemed significantly different -- noticeably longer and wider, with a dimensionally-different chassis underneath. I know they all get lumped together as live-axle cars, but it seems dismissive of the changes to the 58.

Maybe 58 is C1.5 and 61 is C1.6?

tuxnharley

You're right on that one - and I think that is the only case where I would agree with the use of the Cx.y designation!

tuxnharley

OK, that's even better yet!

Supersonic 427

Actually if you look at the C1 (1953-1962 Corvette) you could almost call them 3 generations. 1) '53-'55 2) '56-'57 3) '58-'62

robvuk

I don't have a picture but as someone else pointed out, the 58 chevy had twin round tail lights too. A non production 59 Corvette racer wouldn't give it precedence.

tuxnharley

Actually, the 1957 Corvette SS had round tail lights - six of 'em!