bought some vintage magazines about Corvettes. one of my favourite vette is exhactly the 73. here it is the dec72 magazine introducing the 73 Corvette. I hope you'll enjoy the reading.
I'm founding many interesting infos on vintage magazines, that I can't find on the net. i'll post more of them if someone is interested

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/BB6D794C948E428995B6256AD86CC311.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/B37CE219D7D34419BB70993623FB0B4A.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/FB9F619B541D4E12BAC2A5C06B928332.jpg[/IMG]

 

other pages...too heavy

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/2EBDE5ADDDC6495494DDF493107D1397.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/6E3FBE031D144522973B649FDEE50AE4.jpg[/IMG]

 

the last one

[IMG]local://upfiles/6949/4D419393D9EB4F0E8CC2DF1D1AB9336B.jpg[/IMG]

 

hey Aldo!

Great information! I enjoyed especially the specifications on the different engines and gear ratios.

[sm=icon_cheers.gif]

 

To cool, thanks for sharing.

PS. We sure had a lot of hair back then! PG.

 

Thanks for the info. Hard to believe that back then the big block was actually cheaper than the L-82and the roadster was cheaper than the coupe. Where's my flux capacitor when I need it?

Even with hydraulic lifters, mine would easily rev to the 6000 redline.They said 5500 but it's really 6000. I think 5500 was for the base engine.

 

Great read, Aldous!

pg,....Hair? Yup I still go lots of it, not as much in front, but still a lot downthe back.

 

[align=left]Great article. I was a sophmore in high school in 73... and I remember it well. My dad and I were rebuilding my first car in the garage when that article came out, a '69 SS396 Chevelle, a total east coast rust bucket with a blow'd up M22. It took a year to get it looking and running good, and my dad would pick me up after drivers ed in it. I took my drivers test in it... didn't really impress the driving examiner though. He probably drove a Volvo...
Anyways... it took a few years... but I finally got a '73 big block in 1984. Think I'll keep it.

Italy has to be a great place to drive a Vette... can't be too many of them there...
[/align][align=left] [/align]

 

Wow, what a great find. Thanks for posting this; my first vette is my 73 vert and I don't think I could have a better model. I love the lines and the whole look of the car and the year has all the improvements listed in the article that make it unique. Thanks again, I printed this out to save.
Marty