"It happened on the strip where the road is wide
Two cool shorts standin' side by side
Yeah, my fuel injected Sting Ray and a 413
Revvin' up our engines and it sounds real mean
Tach it up, tach it up
Buddy gonna shut you down...."
Title courtesy of Brian Wilson, Roger Christian and Mike Love. Continuing with the Beach Boys and hot car theme, Shut Down is their 1963 hit song about a drag race between a Super-Stock 413 Dodge Dart and a fuel injected '63 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray. The Sting Ray wins the race.
The car in this image is the fuel injected 1963 Corvette Sting Ray the Beach Boys were singing about in Shut Down - one truly awesome machine. (My original title for this image was "Corvette Dream") Best viewed large.
I had a friend with a split window in college. It was tough trying to act calm from the passenger seat when he was putting that thing through its paces on a twisty back road. This is a good view of the lines that made it famous.