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Old Jun 25, 2021 | 01:24 PM
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Do we have a thread here about what a great movie Corvette Summer was? I am watching it right now. Loaner from the library.

I did not know that this car was a right hand drive.

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I don't know. I remember hating that movie when I was growing up. I think it was because of what they did to that poor Corvette. Not my cup of tea. Annie Potts was not bad to look at back then though.
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I don't know. I remember hating that movie when I was growing up. I think it was because of what they did to that poor Corvette. Not my cup of tea. Annie Potts was not bad to look at back then though.
Agreed. I got the movie from the library because I had forgotten about how the car looks. IMHO, it was a bad movie.
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she is older. so are we. i would still happily do dirty dirty things to her. the car? not so much...
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she is older. so are we. i would still happily do dirty dirty things to her. the car? not so much...
She has aged better than the car:


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Movie Copyright 1978 so before C4 Corvettes.

The Gone in Sixty Seconds movie spawned several Mustangs built that copy the car in that movie. I can't remember ever seeing a copy of the Corvette Summer car.

Annie Potts does look good. My daughter says that now she sometimes plays in the Law and Order series.

Previous post I said it was a bad movie; my daughter is now watching the whole thing. Shows what I know.
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Originally Posted by sd45t2

The Gone in Sixty Seconds movie spawned several Mustangs built that copy the car in that movie. I can't remember ever seeing a copy of the Corvette Summer car.

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That's a Miata
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Originally Posted by sd45t2
I can't remember ever seeing a copy of the Corvette Summer car.
I think there is a CF member that is making one. I remember seeing a thread about it a while back.
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Originally Posted by sd45t2
Movie Copyright 1978 so before C4 Corvettes.

The Gone in Sixty Seconds movie spawned several Mustangs built that copy the car in that movie. I can't remember ever seeing a copy of the Corvette Summer car.

Annie Potts does look good. My daughter says that now she sometimes plays in the Law and Order series.

Previous post I said it was a bad movie; my daughter is now watching the whole thing. Shows what I know.
How old can I possibly feel reading about someone seeing a movie for the first time that I saw at the drive -in repeatedly OVER 4 DECADES AGO?

PS, Annie Potts was hot and the movie was fun. I especially liked the line, “Its not a car, its a Corvette.”

And yes, OP there have been good and bad replicas floating around. It wasnt the prettiest girl at the dance.
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but it did have on the most makeup...
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I saw it at the drive ins when it came out. Yeah, it was a dumb movie and the car looked like **** but it's a 70's car movie so it still good!


Of course the best part was cruisin' Van Vuys.



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Originally Posted by Richard454
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If you didn't already hate Miatas, well, here ya go!
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Should photoshop "National Corvette Nausuem"
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Years ago, my dad's buddy, rich guy bought his wife a Corvette. She complained it wan't a convertible. So he got her a Miata. She shut up after that...
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I'm currently building that Vette.

It's definitely a love/hate car, but I love it!
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Whatever the significance of this movie is to anyone, the ridiculous modification of the body did nothing to improve it, and IMO ruined the beauty of the original car body style. But.....people like different things, even if it is demented.
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Originally Posted by vettebuyer6369
It wasnt the prettiest girl at the dance.
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but it did have on the most makeup...
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In 70's lingo Corvette Summer was a drive-in movie, meant to be heard not watched or that's what I remember about drive-ins.

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