Stingray whats in a name
Drifting
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My origional (??) script did not have any double sided tape. Speed nuts are a option, but somewhat hard to install in cramped quarters, and sometimes strip when trying to remove. I used 1/2" lengths of small rubber hose that fit snug on the alignment pins to secure to body. Holds well, and are easily removable to wax.
Drifting
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From: Baltimore MD
[QUOTE=VettePower;1561003978]
Well let's see from the picture of your vette, because you added that back spoiler, when the rear end of that 77 originally just sloped down, does that make your car any less desireable to a vette person? Adding the "Stingray" script onto the body of "ANY" C3 is small in comparisome to many modifications that I have seen. Look, if some want to be NCRS, go for it. Others like to modify and personalize their Vettes. Before you go off the deep end on a simple logo on the fenders of a car, step back and look at that wing on yours.
Well let's see from the picture of your vette, because you added that back spoiler, when the rear end of that 77 originally just sloped down, does that make your car any less desireable to a vette person? Adding the "Stingray" script onto the body of "ANY" C3 is small in comparisome to many modifications that I have seen. Look, if some want to be NCRS, go for it. Others like to modify and personalize their Vettes. Before you go off the deep end on a simple logo on the fenders of a car, step back and look at that wing on yours.
Pro
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From: Melbourne, Fla. 6 months- New Middletown, Ohio 6 months
and the measurements for the hole layout. I think they are saying that
the holes are there for the alignment pins but the emblem itself is held on by the double sided tape.
Melting Slicks
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From: Cut n Shoot TX
[QUOTE=IrishJoker;1561010758]
Well let's see from the picture of your vette, because you added that back spoiler, when the rear end of that 77 originally just sloped down, does that make your car any less desireable to a vette person? Adding the "Stingray" script onto the body of "ANY" C3 is small in comparisome to many modifications that I have seen. Look, if some want to be NCRS, go for it. Others like to modify and personalize their Vettes. Before you go off the deep end on a simple logo on the fenders of a car, step back and look at that wing on yours.
WHAT???? You mean that spoiler wasn't original equipment???? Damn that guy that sold me the Vette!!! He said it was a speacial GM option!!!
Then again, I wouldn't have known any better, cause I wasn't a knowledgeable Vette guy until I bought one!!
Well let's see from the picture of your vette, because you added that back spoiler, when the rear end of that 77 originally just sloped down, does that make your car any less desireable to a vette person? Adding the "Stingray" script onto the body of "ANY" C3 is small in comparisome to many modifications that I have seen. Look, if some want to be NCRS, go for it. Others like to modify and personalize their Vettes. Before you go off the deep end on a simple logo on the fenders of a car, step back and look at that wing on yours.
WHAT???? You mean that spoiler wasn't original equipment???? Damn that guy that sold me the Vette!!! He said it was a speacial GM option!!!
Then again, I wouldn't have known any better, cause I wasn't a knowledgeable Vette guy until I bought one!!
Melting Slicks
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From: Aussie expat in Saudi Arabia
Cool pic, but I can't work out where the reference point is that they take all the other measurements from - am I being dull and missing the obvious? Are the two main axis in the pics, the crease in the fender and the rear edge of the fender?
Last edited by saudivette; Jul 10, 2007 at 03:48 PM.
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Burning Brakes
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From: SoCal
Pro
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From: Sealy TX
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My origional (??) script did not have any double sided tape. Speed nuts are a option, but somewhat hard to install in cramped quarters, and sometimes strip when trying to remove. I used 1/2" lengths of small rubber hose that fit snug on the alignment pins to secure to body. Holds well, and are easily removable to wax.
Burning Brakes
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I dunno...I have the Stingray badges on the side of my 1980. I could really care less what others think. Seriously, I don't CARE! I'm not trying to "fool" anybody into thinking that the word "Stingray" will magically make my car faster & more worthy! That's darn-near comical.
Hey, I put Bilsteins & modern suspension on it, does that mean I'm trying to trick people into thinking I have a C5???
It is not a matching numbers, NCRS car. I do events with a Corvette club locally, we all know that a 1980 didn't come with Stingray badges on the side. Who the hell cares!?!?!
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Team Owner
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1968 was NOT a Sting Ray! You missed my point. GM did refer to the corvette Sting Ray in marketing literature but that was because they were confused and didn't realize at the time that the 1968 Corvette was neither Sting Ray nor Stingray (the Stingray hadn't been invented yet). I guess they weren't "corvette people" and didn't know any better.
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From: CORVETTE 77 385 C.I. TEXAS
Mako Shark - concept car for C2
Mako Shark II - concept car for C3
Manta Ray - Mako Shark II was redone after C3 introduction- the back is similiar to 74-77.
Emblems are for identification. On the low volume (for GM) Corvette, emblems are an inexpensive way to identify a new car at the time. The 68 was obviously new & after being called a Sting Ray in the Corvette ads did not have the emblem.
STINGRAY has a fine history & a meaning. STINGRAY represents the new smaller body & chassis w/ I.R.S introduced in 63. It applies to the 2 STINGRAY body styles 63-67 & 68-77.
It's not an emblem, not an option, & some are unmarked. Remember an unmarked police car is still a police car.
STING RAY refers to the body design.
63-67 & 68-77 STINGRAY
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/STINGRAY.htm
Since 63, for 15 years Corvette & Sting Ray were synonymous.
78- 25th anniversay of the Corvette- not Stingray.
Can be debated on 78-82. Many changes. Note that the 78- rear glass is reminiscent of the 63-67 coupe.
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.
Mako Shark II - concept car for C3
Manta Ray - Mako Shark II was redone after C3 introduction- the back is similiar to 74-77.
Emblems are for identification. On the low volume (for GM) Corvette, emblems are an inexpensive way to identify a new car at the time. The 68 was obviously new & after being called a Sting Ray in the Corvette ads did not have the emblem.
STINGRAY has a fine history & a meaning. STINGRAY represents the new smaller body & chassis w/ I.R.S introduced in 63. It applies to the 2 STINGRAY body styles 63-67 & 68-77.
It's not an emblem, not an option, & some are unmarked. Remember an unmarked police car is still a police car.
STING RAY refers to the body design.
63-67 & 68-77 STINGRAY
http://ganeys.home.sprynet.com/STINGRAY.htm
Since 63, for 15 years Corvette & Sting Ray were synonymous.
78- 25th anniversay of the Corvette- not Stingray.
Can be debated on 78-82. Many changes. Note that the 78- rear glass is reminiscent of the 63-67 coupe.
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.
Team Owner
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From: Southbound
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Lead time. New car brochures are printed far in advance of actual model introduction dates and are usually at the delearships before the cars get delivered. Look over a lot of these brochures and you will see several of the Corvettes depicted are clays or carry items which didn't actually make production.
Things changed between the time the brochures were printed and actual production got under way.
Things changed between the time the brochures were printed and actual production got under way.
Burning Brakes
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From: Henrico VA
You can get them with pins...
Try these:
http://www.zip-products.com/Zip/prod...1778C14C1155EA
http://www.corvetteparts.com/details/iid/37992501.htm
http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...7&dept_id=1456
Try these:
http://www.zip-products.com/Zip/prod...1778C14C1155EA
http://www.corvetteparts.com/details/iid/37992501.htm
http://www.ecklers.com/product.asp?p...7&dept_id=1456
Pro
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From: Shoreline WA
Stingray font?
Since personal taste and history are being hashed over again, I'd like to take the opportunity to ask whether anybody knows if that beautiful script is available for our computers. If it or something very close exists then someone in the C3 world must have seen it. Maybe the C2 folks too?
Le Mans Master
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From: Pittsburgh suburbs Pa.
68 was considered Sting Ray but not badged.
If you look at the old Chevrolet promotionals for the new Corvette in 1968 it will say The new 1968 Corvette Sting Ray ( two words) but there was no badging that year. I read somewhere that with the rush to get the new body into production, they were not badged but still called a Sting Ray. Then in 1969 The name was put back on only one word Stingray.
