Spotted rolling northbound on College Avenue in March of 2024 was this Monza Red Corvette Stingray coupe.
I had the Nikon D700 with the compact 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6G travel zoom. Plenty of focal length to grab details. You can embiggenate the photos!
I love that style of wheels on muscle cars and pony cars of the era, but I'm not sure how I feel about them on a sports car like the 'Vette. They look pretty good on this one, though.
Telling a 1970 and a '71 apart from a distance like this is well-nigh impossible as best I can discern. If it has amber front turn signal lenses (which this one does not) it's a later '71 model, but earlier '71s seem to have had clear lenses just like the '70s.
We'll play the odds and file this one as a 1970 model. The lack of a hood bulge means it's a small-block coupe, which means it has one of three different 350 cubic inch V-8s. The base Corvette motor was the 300 horsepower ZQ3, and the next option up was the L46, which had an 11.0:1 compression ratio and was rated at 350 SAE gross horsepower. New for 1970 was the hairy LT-1, which not only had the premium-gas-only 11.0:1 compression of the L46, but added a 780 cfm Holley four-barrel, solid lifters, a lumpy cam, special exhaust manifolds, and an aluminum high-rise dual plane intake manifold. All this was good for 370 horsepower and a quarter mile time of 14.36 seconds at 101.69 mph, according to Motor Trend.
Even though the C3 ran from '68 through '82, for me there's a huge visual disconnect between the pre-bumper and post-bumper years.
ReplyDeleteFor sure! Although there's also another huge styling difference between '77 and '78, when they went to the fastback glass.
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