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Not a lot of car-specific info in VINs before '72:
1=Chevrolet; 9=Corvette; 4=V8 engine; 67=convertible; 9=model year ('69); S=St. Louis assembly plant (all Corvettes from ~'55 to ~'80 were made in St. Louis); 7=meaningless placeholder; 35417= the sequential number your Corvette was in the '69 model year (yours is nearing the end of production)
Designer Imagines A Corvette That Looks More Like a Corvette Than the Corvette
Slideshow: A Jaguar designer's personal project imagines what a modern front-engined Corvette might look like if Chevrolet revisited the golden age of the Stingray.