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The Second Generation of Corvette - 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
C2 CORVETTES: The History of the Corvette Sting Ray (1963-1967)
Five decades after its introduction, the 1963 Corvette remains one of the most startling, engrossing and completely thrilling automotive designs of all time. For discerning enthusiasts, the 1963-1967 Corvettes are the most compelling of the series.
The "midyear" Corvettes aren't so much beautiful as they are provocative. And it was Harley Earl's successor as GM design chief, Bill Mitchell, who was doing most of the provoking. Back in the late '50s, Mitchell had acquired one of the old SS chassis that had been built to race at Sebring and, working with his assistant Larry Shinoda, designed a new body for it with a high waistline, a chiseled prow and sharply creased fenders and called it the Sting Ray.
At about the same time that Mitchell and Shinoda were designing the Sting Ray body style, Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov was building what he hoped would be a world-class chassis for his beloved charge. Cutting the wheelbase down by 4 inches to 98, Arkus-Duntov built a ladder frame that was much stiffer than the previous X-member design and allowed the passenger compartment to be sunk down between the rails. He also designed a new independent rear suspension that economically (in both dollar cost and space usage) used a single transverse nine-leaf spring and the half-shafts as part of the linkage.
It was the marriage of the Mitchell and Shinoda body design with the new Zora Arkus-Duntov chassis that resulted in the 1963 Corvette roadster and, for the first time, fastback coupe.
From the rotating hidden headlamps across the front to the boat tail shaped rear window, the 1963 Corvette coupe was outrageously attractive. And with a thick center bar splitting the rear window in two, not a car out of which it was particularly easy to see. That design earned this car the nickname "split-window coupe."
However, the 1963 is the most cluttered of the Sting Rays, with ornamental vent grilles in the hood, faux gills in the front fenders, ribbed rocker moldings and that bar dviding the rear window, thus was the 1963 Corvette split window coupe created
What carried over from the 1962 to the 1963 Corvette were most of the engines (all of which still displaced 327 cubic inches), the four-wheel drum brakes and the general styling of the rear quarters. A three-speed manual was still the standard transmission, and the base 327 V8 was still rated at 250 hp. On the options sheet were 300- and 340-hp four-barrel, and 360-hp fuel-injected versions of the 327. Also available was the legendary "Z06" race pack option for the coupe that included such things as metallic brake pads, a heavy-duty suspension and an oversize fuel tank. Ordering the Z06 required the costly fuel-injected engine, so production was limited.
Motor Trend tested a 1963 Corvette powered by the fuel-injected engine and backed by the Muncie four-speed transmission. The Corvette hustled from zero to 60 mph in 5.8 seconds and consumed the quarter-mile in 14.5 seconds at 102 mph. "We thought the old model cornered darn well," wrote the magazine, "but there's no comparing it to this new one. It does take a little different technique, but once the driver gets onto it, it's beautiful."
The public immediately embraced the Sting Ray, buying 10,594 coupes and 10,919 convertibles. That's almost half again as many 1962 Corvettes were sold, and the first time total sales topped 20,000 in a year.
For 1964 the Sting Ray's styling was cleaned up but the car otherwise mostly carried over from '63. Eliminating the dummy hood vents, restyling the roof vents and taking the center bar out of the rear window to drastically improve visibility made the true glory of the Sting Ray's shape more obvious. New to the options list was a 360-hp four-barrel 327, and the fuel injected motor was now rated at 375 hp.
Visually, the easiest way to tell a 1965 Corvette from a '64 is the three functional vertical louvers in each front fender. But the big news (literally) was the availability of the new 396-cubic-inch big-block V8. And there was even better news, as four-wheel disc brakes became standard (though 316 fools did delete them in favor of drums and a $64.50 credit).
The "L78" 396 grunted out a hulking 425 hp and became an instant legend as the meanest machine to leave General Motors since the company had stopped building Sherman tanks. With the arrival of big-block power, the mechanical fuel-injected 327's days were numbered. 1965 would be its last year.
But the 396 lasted only one year in the Corvette as it was superseded by 427-cubic-inch versions of the big-block V8 for 1966. Behind the new egg-crate grille, buyers could opt for the standard 327, which was now rated at 300 hp, a 350-horse version inhaling through a single four-barrel, the "L39" 427 making 390 hp or the overwhelming "L72" 427 rated at 425 hp (the same as '65's 396, but with a less temperamental personality).
For 1967 the louver count on each front fender went up to five and the parking brake moved from under the dash to between the bucket seats. But the real glory of the '67 came with the regal "L88" 427, which used aluminum cylinder heads and an intimidating 12.5:1 compression ratio to make somewhere north of 500 hp while wearing a huge 850-cfm four-barrel carburetor (though Chevy would, disingenuously, only admit to 430 horses). The L88 option carried an astronomical $947.90 price tag, and ordering it automatically eliminated the heater, radio and fan shroud. The intent was obviously racing and only 20 L88s were ever built. Today they are the most desirable of the first Sting Rays.
Also new to the Corvette option charts was an "L68" 427 rated at 400 hp and the L71 427 rated at 435 hp and featuring three two-barrel carburetors ("tri-power").
In every conceivable way, the Corvette was at its peak in '67. But, for no apparent reason, it was totally reconfigured for the following 1968 production year.
1963 - 1967 Midyear Corvette Sting Ray Paint Codes
1963
900 - Tuxedo Black - N/A
912 - Silver Blue - N/A
916 - Daytona Blue - 3,475
923 - Riverside Red - 4,612
932 - Saddle Tan - N/A
936 - Ermine White - N/A
941 - Sebring Silver - 1,516
1964
900 - Tuxedo Black - 1,897
912 - Silver Blue - 3,121
916 - Daytona Blue - 3,454
923 - Riverside Red - 5,274
932 - Saddle Tan - 1,765
936 - Ermine White - 3,909
940 - Satin Silver - 2,785
1965
AA - Tuxedo Black - 1,191
CC - Ermine White - 2,216
FF - Nassau Blue - 6,022
GG - Glen Green - 3,782
MM - Milano Maroon - 2,831
QQ - Silver Pearl - 2,552
UU - Rally Red - 3,688
XX - Goldwood Yellow - 1,275
1966
900 - Tuxedo Black - 1,190
972 - Ermine White - 2,120
974 - Rally Red - 3,366
976 - Nassau Blue - 6,100
978 - Laguna Blue 2,054
980 - Trophy Blue - 1,463
982 - Mosport Green 2,311
984 - Sunfire Yellow,- 2,339
986 - Silver Pearl - 2,967
988 - Milano Maroon - 3,799
1967
900 - Tuxedo Black - 815
972 - Ermine White - 1,423
974 - Rally Red - 2,341
976 - Marina Blue - 3,840
977 - Lynndale Blue - 1,381
980 - Elkhart Blue - 1,096
983 - Goodwood Green - 4,293
984 - Sunfire Yellow - 2,325
986 - Silver Pearl - 1,952
988 - Marlboro Maroon - 3,464