What does "Coke Bottle" shape mean to a Vette?
I've heard many times that the C3 has a "Coke Bottle" shape....what does that mean exactly? :thumbs: How did that description originate? Etc Etc Etc....
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"coke bottle shape" refers to that wide hips, narrow waist, large breast type of hour glass figure, but then with the long bottle-nose
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Community/i...bottle_400.jpg I think with the Corvette 3 it mostly relates to the overhead view http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/70lt1//70top.jpg ...tho it limits passenger space, its sexy oh, and I just read that Coke introduced that iconic bottle shape in 1968 http://images.quickblogcast.com/6/2/...cokebottle.jpg same year we got that 'shark shape' with the Corvette http://www.corvettearchive.com/gen3/...rvette_red.jpg |
Look at a C3 picture from the top and place it next to a Coke bottle. You will then see what everyone is talking about. It has to do with the wide nose then the taper at the doors and then the wide rear and flat bottom.
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Now that's a stretch of the imagination! LOL
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I thought they were called coke bottle because that's all you can fit behind the seats....:willy: :willy: :willy:
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is this better? http://content.screencast.com/users/...04-12_1532.png
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Hi,
I believe the shape of the bottle goes all the way back to 1915. I think the curve is just right... for a woman, a car, or a bottle! Regards, Alan |
Interesting
I heard, maybe here, that Zora Duntov had a vette fixed up with a big really powerful engine to see what it would do in terms of max speed and when they were driving it above 150 mph the air pressure from beneath the hood was so strong that it literally blew the hood off, all the while trying to lift the front end off the ground rather than push it down to hold onto the ground! In sailing, my past life or one of them, going from winds of ten mph on the sails to winds of 20 miles per hour on the sails is not doubling the force but geometrically increasing it. 10 x 10 = 100. 20 x 20 = 400 or the force is four times as much and so on. 30 mph is nine times what 10 mph is. sailing a tender boat with 30 knot winds and 40 knot gusts is about all you can possibly manage in a keel boat even if you know what you are doing and you've shortened sail...stuff starts to break:ack:. Thanks for sharing the physics in your note. Lance |
It's the shape that a Corvette should have - if GM would put a retro C3 "coke bottle" shape Vette in the showrooms - in my opinion, they would sell a $hit load of them. I would buy one. Todays Vette body style doesn't do any thing for me. Blends in with every other car out there. :hide: Just my $0.02 :cheers:
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I'm no aero engineer, but I stayed in a LOT of Holiday Inn's,but I've grown up,kinda,hearing about the area rule and coke bottle design in the 100 series jets ect... 'Bout the same time the Vettes came out.... "I report , you decide "
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It has the same meaning to the 'vette as it does to an airplane...
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Originally Posted by MrJlr
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I thought they were called coke bottle because that's all you can fit behind the seats....:willy: :willy: :willy:
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C-3's look sexy to me but the coke bottle does not, how ever wowan are.
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Originally Posted by PRNDL
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is this better? http://content.screencast.com/users/...04-12_1532.png
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Originally Posted by U17
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I'm no aero engineer, but I stayed in a LOT of Holiday Inn's,but I've grown up,kinda,hearing about the area rule and coke bottle design in the 100 series jets ect... 'Bout the same time the Vettes came out.... "I report , you decide "
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Originally Posted by bkvette3
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It's the shape that a Corvette should have - if GM would put a retro C3 "coke bottle" shape Vette in the showrooms - in my opinion, they would sell a $hit load of them. I would buy one. Todays Vette body style doesn't do any thing for me. Blends in with every other car out there. :hide: Just my $0.02 :cheers:
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