Sports Car or Muscle Car

[billyvette]

Hey beater shark, I have a 94 F body z 28. If you think that f body has anything for a big block vette you are sadly mistaken - especialy in the quarter mile. you may have them on top end, but there is no way you can handle a 435 hp 427 with tri power. Then there is the value our f bodies will never compete with the values of all sharks.

 

[BeaterShark]

Billy, if you are judging on 1/4 mile times alone, you must be putting the Corvette in the muscle car category. Even so, a stock LS1 F-body will run mid 13's in the 1/4 on stock low profile tires. I'm sure *some* stock BB vettes could do that or a little better, but that's not was being reported. Check out the performance data:
http://www.corvettearchive.com/images/1969/CLJuly69/69-13.jpg

Put a stock LS1 F-Body against pretty much any stock shark in an autocross or road course and it would not be close. That is where a sports car should shine.

This discussion has nothing to do with a cars value.

 

[Stallion]

Sports car!
1) 2 seats
2) manual shift
3) convertible

I know, before you all start spouting about coupes and automatics I remind you that it was Zora himself who picked the Willy's Jeep as America's first true sports car based on the above criteria.
The BB mid-years leaned heavily into the mucle but hey, there was a war on...

Well even muscle cars should be manual shift.

 

[vettedoc]

I go with Vette-Dude. I believe it is both!


Doc

 

[CKA_Racing]

Well even muscle cars should be manual shift.

I think what most are forgetting is that the Muscle Car Era ended back in the 70's. So calling a vehicle a "Muscle Car" after that date is technically incorrect anyways. At any rate I'd call the Corvette a "Sports Car" and nothing else.

 

[6 Shooter]

A Split Personality . . .

Sports Car with Muscular Tendencies !

 

[drags1998]

Ill go with SPORTS CAR!!!!! Early Big Blocks BOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!:Roll :Roll :Roll :Roll

 

[brusso]

When I think of muscle car I think of very fast in straight line and takes heavy rolls on the turns.

 

[Stallion]

Sports Car with Muscular Tendencies !

I agree!! Well put.

 

[C3RVETTE]

Sports car!!...& I have driven european "sports cars", so I am able to compare.I have owned muscle cars,also.

 

[billyvette]

Billy, if you are judging on 1/4 mile times alone, you must be putting the Corvette in the muscle car category. Even so, a stock LS1 F-body will run mid 13's in the 1/4 on stock low profile tires. I'm sure *some* stock BB vettes could do that or a little better, but that's not was being reported. Check out the performance data:
http://www.corvettearchive.com/images/1969/CLJuly69/69-13.jpg

Put a stock LS1 F-Body against pretty much any stock shark in an autocross or road course and it would not be close. That is where a sports car should shine.

This discussion has nothing to do with a cars value.

To begin, we should not compare c 3 vettes to modern F bodies. It is like comparing apples to lemons. Camaros and fire chickens of the same year vette are several steps behind the vette any way you look at them. Corvettes are sports cars due to only having two doors and the unique fiberglass body. Vettes are not marketed as affordable and they do not have cheaper versions like the v 6 camaros and base fire chickens. Vettes are unique where as camaros and fire chickens are commonplace and not that special regardless of their performance. Regardless of the topic, vettes will always have more value than f bodies, and that is just the facts of life.

 

[BeaterShark]

Billy, That is more or less what I meant by my statement:

It's all relative to the time they were produced.

The C3 is a sports car and had comparable performance to other sports cars of it's era. But many non sports cars of today will easily outperform it in just about every aspect.

 

[C3RVETTE]

Billy, That is more or less what I meant by my statement:
The C3 is a sports car and had comparable performance to other sports cars of it's era. But many non sports cars of today will easily outperform it in just about every aspect.

I think sports cars should be a total package,and the "sports" cars of today dont have the class or style at least of a shark.

 

[C3forME]

I voted sportscar. As Chevrolet always advertised it "America's only true sports car."

 

[sherry_ridgeway]

I think it is both!!

...would that be a spuscle car?LOLOL , seriously I think the vette is both a muscle and sport car, To define them as anything other than "ass kicking" is a waste of time and effort, "hey they rock!!!!!..am i right?
sherry P.S. cmon summer!!!!!WOOooo HOOOooo!!!

 

[Jacko]

It's all relative to the time they were produced.

Corvettes are and have always been sports cars.

Just because my stock '99 muscle car (Forumula Firebird) will run circles around any stock shark ...........

What?
Circles?
Impossible!

Oh my....now I have a headache.

 

[Stallion]

I voted sportscar. As Chevrolet always advertised it "America's only true sports car."

That is factually true. Hmmm I guess Corvettes really are sports cars.

 

[Glensgages]

Based on the fact that even the lowest-HP-rated Shark could out-handle almost ANY American-made performance car in that time-period (1968-1982), I'd say that ALL C3s are 'Sports Cars'.

Having said THAT.....

how could you NOT consider 'some' of the radio-delete/heater-delete 427/454 CID, aluminum-head/aluminum-block, M-22 equipeed, 4.56:1-geared, side-pipe exhausted models of the '68-'70 era 'muscle cars'?
:confused

IMHO, a '69 L-46/'70 LT-1 can make claims for stature in BOTH categories.

Comparing 3rd generation F-bodies to C3-Sharks in drag-racing is interesting, but consider that some LS1-equipped Camaro/Firebirds are running quicker than a 1970 Pro-Stocker Rat-powered Camaro or Hemi-Cuda ran!!!

It is all relative.

 

[jclit]

It’s a sports car with a mussel car feel. I have another sports car (Nissan Z) and they are different, but very much alike also. When you get down to it the Corvette is a Corvette. A category all its own.



Ill go with sports car.

 

[hotmtrsports]

I think they are both.

It's like asking if the black pot is black or a very very dark color.

Both of them are too closely related for a Corvette. Should have had "combination of both" for an option.

Chuck