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I used to work at a GM dealership when the C3s were being sold. They would unload those C3s right in front of our windows at the parts department. I wish I had taken some pictures back then. It did stir my interest in Corvettes though. The rest is history.
Definitely a much better time in American history.
For the most part yes. I was in High School at the time of these photos and have many fond memories of that time, but there was the Vietnam war though and I can't help wonder how many of the guys in the photos went there. I was lucky, my draft number was 356, I didn't have to go. I remember sitting around a radio with a group of friends my age listening to the draft lottery for our birth dates and draft numbers to come up.
For the most part yes. I was in High School at the time of these photos and have many fond memories of that time, but there was the Vietnam war though and I can't help wonder how many of the guys in the photos went there. I was lucky, my draft number was 356, I didn't have to go. I remember sitting around a radio with a group of friends my age listening to the draft lottery for our birth dates and draft numbers to come up.
Mike
There has never been a time in world history that was perfect. The Vietnam war bad for many reasons, mostly because the government didn't try to win it. We have Afghanistan. But my fathers generation and before as a whole at least had respect and believed that personal responsibility was most important. Good work ethics and the American dream that existed then was wholesome and worthy of pride. I look back at those photos, and it reminds me of that time. What we have today is far less, while there are remnants of what was still in us in the boomer generation, the later generations have taken on a new existence that I seriously question. I know every generation, especially as they get older, think that the new generation has lost something, but its hard to deny now.
Besides, C3's are not sold new any more.....so that alone makes it wrong!
Last edited by Shovels and Vettes; Jul 27, 2017 at 01:09 PM.
Cool pictures! I noticed that a couple of the very early 68's did not have the added on black front chin spoiler, when new. I was in Vietnam until the end of March and then went to Germany for a year and a half. I could not believe what the new Corvettes looked like. Like a jet fighter plane with the wings cut off! Lou.
There has never been a time in world history that was perfect. The Vietnam war bad for many reasons, mostly because the government didn't try to win it. We have Afghanistan. But my fathers generation and before as a whole at least had respect and believed that personal responsibility was most important. Good work ethics and the American dream that existed then was wholesome and worthy of pride. I look back at those photos, and it reminds me of that time. What we have today is far less, while there are remnants of what was still in us in the boomer generation, the later generations have taken on a new existence that I seriously question. I know every generation, especially as they get older, think that the new generation has lost something, but its hard to deny now.
Besides, C3's are not sold new any more.....so that alone makes it wrong!
I agree with you. That is why I said for the most part and I had many fond memories of that time.
I don't understand your last sentence. So that alone makes what wrong?
I agree with you. That is why I said for the most part and I had many fond memories of that time.
I don't understand your last sentence. So that alone makes what wrong?
Mike
Sorry, what I trying to say that back then you could buy a new C3, and I wish I was back in the time when that was possible, i.e. wish it was 1969 and I was walking into a Chevy dealer to pick up my newly ordered 1969 black with red interior big block 4-speed. Awww....its a dream.
And for you rubber bumper guys, this is how things were when the rubber bumpers were cool. Check the price of the '74 compared to the '69 427. Chrome lost its coolness. My '69 was so passe!
The '70's was a cool time to buy high performance cars......remember the "gas crisis"?. I paid $1500.00 for my '68 Hemi Roadrunner in 1976.......and that was top dollar!. It only had 28,000 miles on it.
Check the price of the '74 compared to the '69 427. Chrome lost its coolness.
My '69 was so passe!
