What's A Stingray
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From: Burlington WI
What's A Stingray
I have posts calling a 81 a stingray. Since I have owned my 81 a little over a year, technically should be call a shark body. The vettes that had the stingray emblem should be called stingrays. Am I right or could all the shark bodies be called stingrays.
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From: McDonough Georgia
Originally Posted by shafrs3
Stingray is just a label GM used on the C2 and early C3's. They chose to quit using the label I think in '74 or '75. I would consider all C3's as being Stingrays.
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From: Arlington Va Current ride 04 vert, previous vettes: 69 vert, 77 resto mod
this debate can go on forever.......stingrays are the 68-77 body style and they stopped the stingray emblem in 76 but some early 77s have them
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Its too early to tell after two posts, but I wondering those that have
the stingray emblem vettes want their car to be called stingrays. Maybe the ones that don't still want their car to be call a stingray.
I like the name and in my opinion a stingray is the ones which has the emblem. The rest are sharks. I wish I owned a stingray bumpered.
A young teen came up to be at the gas station is said he liked my stingray. I was about is tell him it was not, but a shark body but figured he was too young to understand. Not sure how old you have
to be.
the stingray emblem vettes want their car to be called stingrays. Maybe the ones that don't still want their car to be call a stingray.
I like the name and in my opinion a stingray is the ones which has the emblem. The rest are sharks. I wish I owned a stingray bumpered.
A young teen came up to be at the gas station is said he liked my stingray. I was about is tell him it was not, but a shark body but figured he was too young to understand. Not sure how old you have
to be.
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From: Wichita KS
Originally Posted by bobs77vet
this debate can go on forever.......stingrays are the 68-77 body style and they stopped the stingray emblem in 76 but some early 77s have them
cc
FWIW, I prefer to call mine a Stingray and I don't think of 1968s or anything after 1976 as a Stingray.
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and now if you go and look in the C6 forums, youll see the guys over there calling their cars Stingrays now too. more then a few have slapped the Stingray insignia on the fenders of their cars.
hell, theres even rumors that Chevy is bringing back the Stingray name for an up and comeing vette.
hell, theres even rumors that Chevy is bringing back the Stingray name for an up and comeing vette.
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From: Burlington WI
I did not mean to cause any hard feelings. It was just a question. A sunliner was convertable ford. A starliner was ford. Different model.
A Impala was chev as a belair was a chev. I guess the engineers were
the ones that design the name. A corvette is a corvette, but there ZR1, sting ray, stingray, and etc. My 81 says corvette and thats it.
It is a C3 series or sharkbody. I own a 87 for 4 years and never heard
it called a wideboy until this year. Now how about the 63 1/2 falcon
sprint I sold 5 years ago. This was V8 falcon with script on dash,
woodgrain steering wheel and buckets and a sprint labeled tach on the
dash. Many of falcons were make into a sprint and no were could you
prove it was fake. A lot of tempests were converted over to a GTO and
you had to be smart in pontiacs to catch this, which I was not.
A Impala was chev as a belair was a chev. I guess the engineers were
the ones that design the name. A corvette is a corvette, but there ZR1, sting ray, stingray, and etc. My 81 says corvette and thats it.
It is a C3 series or sharkbody. I own a 87 for 4 years and never heard
it called a wideboy until this year. Now how about the 63 1/2 falcon
sprint I sold 5 years ago. This was V8 falcon with script on dash,
woodgrain steering wheel and buckets and a sprint labeled tach on the
dash. Many of falcons were make into a sprint and no were could you
prove it was fake. A lot of tempests were converted over to a GTO and
you had to be smart in pontiacs to catch this, which I was not.
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From: Hudson Falls, N.Y. 76 Vette Modified L-48
I always call her a Corvette....if the admirerer wants more info, I mention that my 76 was the last year with the Stingray emblem...most people know that the Corvette and Stingray words are interchangable....
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From: CORVETTE 77 385 C.I. TEXAS
STINGRAY
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/STINGRAY.htm
STINGRAY has a fine history & a meaning. STINGRAY refers to the body style. The new smaller body & chassis w/ I.R.S was introduced in 63. It applies to the 2 STINGRAY body styles 63-67 & 68-77.
Stingray- BB hood on 65-66, tail on 63-67 coupes, wings extended from roof 68-77 Stingrays.
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/77%20R%20T.jpg
Since 63, for 15 years (63-77) Corvette & Sting Ray were synonymous.
78- 25th anniversay of the Corvette- not Stingray. Many changes.They were already working on the C4 & McLellan had said the styling would be reeled in. 84 induction & 700R4 were in production in 81. So the focus was on the C4.CORVETTE says it all anyway.
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/STINGRAY.htm
STINGRAY has a fine history & a meaning. STINGRAY refers to the body style. The new smaller body & chassis w/ I.R.S was introduced in 63. It applies to the 2 STINGRAY body styles 63-67 & 68-77.
Stingray- BB hood on 65-66, tail on 63-67 coupes, wings extended from roof 68-77 Stingrays.
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/77%20R%20T.jpg
Since 63, for 15 years (63-77) Corvette & Sting Ray were synonymous.
78- 25th anniversay of the Corvette- not Stingray. Many changes.They were already working on the C4 & McLellan had said the styling would be reeled in. 84 induction & 700R4 were in production in 81. So the focus was on the C4.CORVETTE says it all anyway.
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From: Syracuse NY
Originally Posted by CCrane72
Small correction, 68s were not called Stingrays. The C2s were called Sting Rays, then in 1968 they dropped the name but strong demand forced them to bring it back in 1969 but written slightly different, as all one word.
cc
FWIW, I prefer to call mine a Stingray and I don't think of 1968s or anything after 1976 as a Stingray.
cc
FWIW, I prefer to call mine a Stingray and I don't think of 1968s or anything after 1976 as a Stingray.
GM called the 68 a Stingray in their pamphlets, I've got a 68 and really couldn't care less what anyone thinks it should be called, but I've got to say I really like the look of the stingray script on the 69 through whatever year they stopped adding them.
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From: Carbondale Pa.
Originally Posted by DZRick
In 68 they dropped the script not the name,
GM called the 68 a Stingray in their pamphlets, I've got a 68 and really couldn't care less what anyone thinks it should be called, but I've got to say I really like the look of the stingray script on the 69 through whatever year they stopped adding them.
GM called the 68 a Stingray in their pamphlets, I've got a 68 and really couldn't care less what anyone thinks it should be called, but I've got to say I really like the look of the stingray script on the 69 through whatever year they stopped adding them.
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From: Eagle River Alaska
Originally Posted by bobs77vet
this debate can go on forever.......stingrays are the 68-77 body style and they stopped the stingray emblem in 76 but some early 77s have them