was your first Corvette a Shark (c3)
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Hi,
It was a Stingray. But most people I knew called them 'late models'.
I'm not sure when people started calling them 'sharks', or for that matter referring to them by the code 'C3'.
I'm thinking maybe in the mid-eighties?
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Alan
It was a Stingray. But most people I knew called them 'late models'.
I'm not sure when people started calling them 'sharks', or for that matter referring to them by the code 'C3'.
I'm thinking maybe in the mid-eighties?
Regards,
Alan
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