'Loydster's Ramblings' ---- Episode 9!!!

   

Once AGAIN---- ready or NOT! Here's yet ANOTHER 'audio-assault' / 'verbal-blitz', from the 'ol Loydster! This time around, I'm waxing all SUPER-GEEKY-- about one of my ALL-TIME favorite vehicles. (NOT the Ford Mustang! That'll be ANOTHER 'geek-out-fest', for a post in the ---hopefully not TOO-far-distant-- future! Though, probably not a pod-cast---'Loydster's Ramblings' is going into 'deep-cold-storage' after next month, remember?)---- 

AND--- here's a little 'pictorial-help', to go along with all the 'classic-Corvette-blabbin'!--- My 'top-6-fave-'Vettes' list!----

        

1. The '57 'Vette. (And yes, I know the pic above, as well as the one of the '62, is REVERSED!)

2. The '62 'Vette. (See comment above!)

3. The '63 Stingray 'split-window'. ('TIMELESS CLASSIC'! 'Nuff said!)

4. The '68 Stingray.

5. The '84 'Vette.

6. The 2014 Stingray. Return of the 'Stingray' name, return of some TRULY wicked body lines!

AND---- A 'supplemental' / 'additonal-COOL-rides' list! The collection of pics above, (as well as my blab-session below--of COURSE!) includes 3 of my ALL-time favorite 'concept' / 'dream-'Vettes'!!--

A--The '59 Sting Ray concept vehicle. One wild-and-wooly, radically-racy-looking vehicle! Looks FAST just sitting still, doesn't it??? This WAY-ahead-of-it's-time car (and the '63 'vette-body-style that came after it!), was actually inspired by a sketch, drawn-up by Mr. Pete Brock, another Chevy design genius! 

Along with design-team head Bill Mitchell AND the equally gifted Larry Shinoda--- Brock was one of the 'fathers' of the '63-'67 Corvette. I regret not giving the credit to Mitchell and Brock in the pod-cast! ANOTHER 'Loydster-GOOF' sneaks into one of these little 'audio-epics'! Hey--- I just would NOT be ME, if I didn't fumble over a fact-toid now and then!

B--The  1965, Larry Shinoda-designed, 'Mako Shark 2'. Looks like a Super hero's car, right? (And--yes, I know there was a previous concept 'Vette-- the original 'Mako Shark', that made it's debut in '61. BUT-- it's the '65 / 'Shark 2', that's ALWAYS grabbed me and made me 'geek-out' the  MOST!)           

C--The 2009 'Stingray' concept 'Vette. It even had a 'spilt-window'---like the '63 model! Too bad this one was never 'mass-produced'! WILD, almost-cartoony-but-STILL-cool stuff!

That's PLENTY of introductory-type material! On with the 'Loydster-yimmer-yammering'! Scroll on down below, and do that pointing-and-clicking routine, to either listen right-here-and-now-- OR down-load it, if you're the 'saving & collecting' type!----

 

   A 9th edition of 'Loyd-a-blabbin'!

 

-----See you sometime in September, gang!-----