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...with partner Hal Barwood, wrote the scripts for The Sugarland Express and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars. Corvette Summer shares the earlier films' jaunty, all-American tone. The hero is a recent high school grad, Kenny (Mark Hamill), who leaves home for Vegas after his prized Stingray is stolen. While chasing down the car, he meets up with a prattling, fledgling hooker (Annie Potts) who initiates him into sex. Suffice it to say that love and virtue eventually triumph over pimps and car thieves...
...Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, Actor Mark Hamill scooted over Tatooine in a weathered aircar. In his next picture, he settles for more down-to-earth transportation. Stingray stars Hamill as a high school hot-rod builder and Annie Potts as a hippie hooker who jumps into his passenger seat. Hamill got a few bruises from his Stingray stunts and a brief scare from a California cop. Says Hamill: "We were horsing around on Van Nuys Boulevard, and a cop came over and told us to get out of the Stingray. When he saw the camera and realized we were...
General Motors executives tend to be solid, conservative men who spend decades laboring in patient obscurity. Alongside them, John Zachary DeLorean, 48, stood out like a Corvette Stingray in a showroom full of G.M.C. trucks. Flamboyant, irreverent and unpredictable, DeLorean wore long hair before that was fashionable-it still is not at G.M.-dated Hollywood wows like Ursula Andress, and was twice divorced. Still, he rose steadily to head all G.M. car and truck production, and was rumored to be G.M.'s next president. But last week DeLorean abruptly resigned his $300,000-a-year post to become unsalaried...
...first thing I noticed as I drove through was a beautiful dark green Corvette Stingray, its engine making characteristic low rumbling noise, cruising effortlessly at 20 mph. (I found, much to my annoyance, that the speed limit was 25!) Then I passed an orange Vette, a bright yellow Vette, another and another. I thought something was dangerously amiss, but I soon discovered that there were 160 (count'em) Corvettes on campus, more than you or I have probably seen in an entire lifetime of playing the old car identification game which, in my case, drove both my parents absolutely crazy...
...beauty, not cosmetics; oral gratification, not cigarettes. Depthwise, baking a cake is supposedly a re- enactment of childbirth and shaving a form of castration. Speed and performance, or a sense of male power, are blatantly stressed in automobile commercials. Cars become wild animals or fish Wildcat, Impala, Cougar, Stingray, Barracuda. When a man slips behind the wheel humming "Only Mustang makes it happen," he, too, becomes a big ripsnorting stud. Ridiculous? Well, whoever heard of a car called the Aardvark or the Pussycat...