User blog:1steditionman/1976 Corvette Stingray

This red Corvette Stingray is a retool of the 1970's C3 "urethane bumper Vette" (as I like to call it), first produced by Mattel in the 1970's (when, I am not sure) with a metal body and base. Later in the 1990's a different Vette was made with a plastic body and a metal base, but in 1978-1982 styling.

For 2015, it has a metal body and plastic base with year 2015 stamped on it. Although it looks very similar to the old 1990's plastic casting (same C3!), it is clearly different than the 74-77 Vette with the bubble-style fastback backlight. This new red recolor is designed as a 1974-77 model. It has much crisper details, which is not typical when comparing metal with plastic, where plastic usually wins due to the inherent nature of the materials and casting process.

So we are fortunate that Mattel chose to bring out this one in the 2015 Mainline, an older 1974-77 design with the vertical backlight and tunneled rear pillars, a touch of heritage in the SP5 wheels, and in the perfect color in beautiful candy red.