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Car of The Day: April 18, 2010; Greenlight '67 Chevy Corvette
Topic Started: Apr 17 2010, 08:37 AM (285 Views)
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The car for today is Greenlight's 1967 Chevy Corvette.

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The Chevrolet Corvette C2 is the second generation of the sports car by the Chevrolet division of General Motors. The C2 was produced for the 1963 through 1967 model years. Virtually all-new, the Sting Ray stunned the automotive world in 1963, blending world-class handling with unmistakable all-American style and performance. Bill Mitchell revisited the Super Sport racer and would subsequently reinvent the Corvette with radical new styling, high performance, and a first-ever coupe. The generation became an instant classic, set sales records, and remains one of the most coveted of collectors' cars. The C2 generation continued winning on the race track, with successive engineering innovations, and eventually had a five-year run that many regard as the high point of Corvette history


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The 1967 model was originally intended to debut the C3 generation Corvette, however due to engineering delays and possibly to avoid internal competition with the new Camaro, the C3 was pushed back a year. The 427 was available with a 1282 ft³/min (605 L/s) Holley triple two-barrel carburetor arrangement, which the factory called Tri-Power/


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This one is from the Barrett-Jackson auction series of a few years back. It has all the overall basics and looks good, but I still feel it's a bit off somewhere but can't figure where. After I photographed it, it looks good, so maybe I'm wrong. In any case, it's a very nice Corvette diecast and I'm glad I bought it when I did

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The casting is quite nice Ivan, I think the over sized tires and rims is maybe what throws the look off. they are too big and wide. If GL had started using correct scale tires to begin with, this would look that much better imo.
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Ezekiel 25:17
Boy, you hit the nail on the head with those tires...
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Minus the wheels, looks good.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
One of the better C2 castings, by far! For some reason this is a hard casting to get 'right'.
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