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24/02/2006 12:43 pm
Question for Vette "experts"
In 1967 could you have ordered the Sunfire Yellow Corvette, with a Black stinger hood/stripe, AND a BLACK removable roof? Or would a body colored removable hard top be the only choice???? Please let me know, THANKS! 
24/02/2006 1:42 pm
No stinkers were available in 1967! You're getting the....
Corvette mixed up with the T-bird. LOL!
24/02/2006 1:55 pm
Philip; yes, you could order the Sunflower Yellow with a Black, Auxilary Hardtop, but it had to have the Vinyl Covering. I don't think you could order the "STINKER" hood/stripe. It would be too smelly, when riding with the top down! :O :"> X-( 
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24/02/2006 3:21 pm
Cut him some slack....Ya'll know it was a typo for STINGER
24/02/2006 3:30 pm
Tom,,, yes, we know! We are just yanking his chain. He knows that we are jesting. We are all friends here, right? :-/
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24/02/2006 5:13 pm
Thanks guys! And YES it was a TYPO that's what I get for .....
NOT proof reading my Posts. I almost always do, and it amazes me that sometimes a word I've typed is NOTHING at all what was intended! I do type fast and at any given moment have 1/2 a million projects going on and things on my mind so..... THANKS for the info on that STINKING (LOL) Stinger / Roof information. 😉 Correction to the Post has been made was well!
25/02/2006 4:49 am
No and yes...
The removable hard top was always body color. It was RPO option: C07 Auxiliary Hardtop, for convertibles. Extra charge was $231.75 and 6,880 were made for model year 1967. You could also opt, however, for the RPO option C08, a Vinyl Covering for the Auxiliary Hardtop. It did come in black. It cost $52.70 and 1,966 were made in total. So if you replicate a diecast hard top in black it should approximate the 1:1 vinyl-clad unit.
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25/02/2006 2:38 pm
Tony, any pics of this type of unit?? Sounds NEATO lol
Did it have the Vinyl seems near the outter roof edges or was it simply a completely textured surface similar to a sprayed on looking finish? THANKS big "T" I figured YOU or John Phillips would know 😉
25/02/2006 4:28 pm
Hi Phil! I don't have pics, but I had a friend in our Corvette Club that had one of the hard tops with the Black covering, and I only saw it one time, and as I recall, it was all one piece, without seams. it has been a few years since I saw it, and that member moved to North Carolina and I'm out of contact with him, or I could call him and ask. Sorry! Again, this is just my memory, not 100%. :-/, but I'm 99.9% sure! B-)
25/02/2006 5:49 pm
I sure hope so.......
26/02/2006 10:18 am
Sorry Phil, I have no pics of one. I only recall seeing one...
...vinyl roof hard top on a 'midyear'. Ironically, it was a 1967 Vette. It was last year at the Reeder Corvette Show where I entered the C4. It was a Marina Blue car with the black vinyl auxiliary hard top. To be honest, I disliked it so much I failed to get a photo! If memory serves, it did not have seems.
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26/02/2006 8:07 pm
I could imagine that Tony, a vinyl roof on a Corvette removable or ....
Otherwise would be like having a Continental Kit on a BMW LOLOLOL
27/02/2006 4:55 am
Hey wait a minute guys, my '69 Vette had a vinyl hardtop and it looked darn handsome.
The car was hugger orange and the top was black vinyl and YES, IT DID HAVE SEAMS. Unfortunately, I don't have any pix that show the roof close enough to show them. The car had 36000 miles on it when I sold it in 1989.
27/02/2006 9:06 am
1969 Corvette with black vinyl top...
And yes it does have the seams on it.
photo no longer available
Sorry about the poor pictures but this is the best I could find on a short notice. B-)