To the owner of this Corvette, Stingray is a classic car. To me, it’s a kids TV show (circa 1964). Developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the British sci-fi, underwater adventure combines sophisticated puppetry and models in a production style/technique known as Supermarionation. Stingray is a program most Americans of any age wouldn’t know, nor its contemporaries like Captain Scarlet or Fireball XL5—although the latter was broadcast on this side of the pond by NBC.
But many of these same people easily could know Thunderbirds, which popularity extended beyond the 1960s into the modern era, with several follow-on series and even a live-action feature film. As a kid, I watched all the Anderson Supermarionation shows. You might wonder how, seeing as I am American and, with the exception of aforementioned Fireball XL5, none of them was broadcast in the States.
I was privileged to grow up near the U.S. border with New Brunswick, Canada, and CHSJ-TV from Saint John scheduled the Anderson productions and other programs not carried in Northern Maine at that time—like the original Star Trek, which my sisters and I watched on Sunday afternoons.
How’s that for making strange connections? As for the car shown in the Featured Image, I have never owned one, wanted one, or could afford one. I passed the Corvette on Nov. 6, 2023, parked along Panorama Drive in San Diego neighborhood of University Heights. The entire set comes from Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. I can’t explain why the side shot is more maroon and the rest red.
Vitals, first: f/1.7, ISO 10, 1/250 sec, 23mm (film equivalent); 10:44 a.m. PST. Next is the same but 1/180 sec and one minute later. The last two are 1/240 sec and 1/480 sec, respectively, and 10:44 a.m.