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We sold this beauty to fund our 2006 C6 Z06 Corvette. This was a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Roadster in original Daytona Yellow with black interior and soft top. It also had the original yellow hard top. Its the original 350 Cu In 300 HP and TH400 Automatic. It is all stock, numbers matching, and almost all original except for maintenance items.
1969 HIGHLIGHTS:
New for this year was a "Stingray" script added to the front fenders just behind the wheels.
Although much of the chassis and mechanical components carried over from the 1967, the 1969 body style was completely redesigned.
The door opening mechanism was simplified by eliminating the separate finger push button found on the 68.
Side mounted exhaust and special side louver trim became options this year.
The steering wheel diameter was reduced from 16 inches to 15 inches.
1969 marked the first year for a steering column-mounted ignition switch, headlight washers, 8-inch wheels and 350ci engines.
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SAVE THE WAVE
There's one item of standard equipment that comes as a pleasant surprise to every new Corvette owner. It's an instant wave of recognition he or she recieves when they meets one of their fellow Vette owners on the road. Ever since Corvette No. 00001 first met Corvette No. 00002 on the road, their drivers saluted each other with waves. A good Vette owner relishes encountering other Vettes as he drives. At first he experiments with his waves, running the gamut from the gaping "yoo hoo" to the ultra cool "two finger flip." He perfects his timing, making sure he affects neither a too-early wave, nor the jaded "oh brother" too-late variety. Determined not to be one upped, he even developes a defense mechanism for non wavers, usually settling on the "Wave"? My hand was just on the way to scratch my head" approach. (This is especially useful when you're not driving your Vette, but you forget, and like a dummy, you wave anyway.)
Indeed, one of the most perplexing problems facing a would-be waver is what to do when driving next to a fellow Vette owner. Passing him going in opposite directions is one thing. Greetings are exchanged, and that's that. But what happens when you pull up next to a guy at a light, wave, nod, smile and then pull up to him at the next light, a block later? Wave again? Nod bashfully? Grin self-consciously? Ignore him? Or take the chicken's way out and turn down the next side street? If you're expecting an answer, you won't find it here. Sad to say, some questions don't have any.
Girl-type Corvette drivers also have a unique problem: to wave or not to wave. This miss or misses who borrows her man's Corvette for the first time is immediately faced with this quandary. Should she wave first and look overly friendly, or ignore the wave and look like a snob? Most ladies who drive their own Vettes prefer to suffer the latter rather than take a chance of being misread. For this reason, all girls are excused for occassionally failing to return a well-meaning wave. So are new owners who are still learning the ropes.
There is no excuse, however, for a guy who refuses to return the wave, not out of ignorance, but of arrogance or apathy. While this type of behavior is the exception to the rule, it seems a few owners of newer models refuse to recognize anything older than theirs, while some others simply won't wave, period. Boo on them. These ding-a-lings don't seem to realize that they are helping to squash a tradition that had its beginnings back when most of us were still driving tootsietoys.
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