🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Looking for help on the ID for this Tootsie Toy

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Stamped Tootsie Toy Chicago USA, couldn't seem to find an exact match. Quite pitted and in rough shape.

As always, your help is very much appreciated. Hunk a lead.

 

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Stamped Tootsie Toy Chicago USA, couldn't seem to find an exact match. Quite pitted and in rough shape.

As always, your help is very much appreciated. Hunk a lead.

It's a 1968 Corvette.
Here's one on eBay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/255861124040?_trksid=p2332490.c101224.m-1

 

[Mackaydon]

Some history:
The Corvette has been in production since 1953, named after a small warship. There have been eight generations of Corvette. Yours is from the 3rd generation (1968-1982). The car was designed to interest American servicemen who had fallen under the spell of Jaguars, MGs and Triumphs during their World War II service in Europe. The Chevy Corvette was the first proper American sports car.

I owned a full-sized 1963 Vet for 30 days. It was stolen before the registration papers cleared.
Thanks for the memory; really.
Don in SoCal