Fun little auto design Easter Eggs are, sometimes, one of the best reasons to flush the pills down the toilet and give it a try for one more day. And now, thanks to tipper and Corvette enthusiast Jeff Port, we know about another great one:

Corvette convertibles made from '90 (some say '89) to '96 have a tiny baseball bat, hot dog, and apple pie stamped into them.

The little stamping can only be found if you pull up the carpet from the area behind the passenger seat, right above the speaker-mounting cutouts. The symbols, aside from being so American that if you were to hold these three items at once you'd explode into a cloud of bald eagles, come from a 1970s advertising slogan of Chevy's "Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet." I'm a little alarmed that "mom" is left out of the list, but I suppose having to stamp each Corvette with every buyer's own mom would have been cost-prohibitive...

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Wish I'd know to look when I was putting the sound deadener in that area of my 96. I stripped the carpet,  took the speakers completely out and even had to clean the area to put the deadener in the speaker boxes and I don't know how I could have missed them. Are you just making me an early April fool? OOPs, Not a convertible. Why would they distinguish between the two.

|UPDATED|1/8/2013 8:09:09 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|


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The body tubs for Verts are different...made in different molds than the coupes. I would imagine someone slipped that in at the supplier.
I've heard the rumors of this for years, but have never actually taken the time to look myself.



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Joel Adams  
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"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"

Picture is worth 1,000 descriptions. Link grabbed from CF.

Computer programmers hide special little programming features in their computer programs and they have a special name for them.  They are called "Easter Eggs."  It is interesting to see that Corvette's may have "Easter Eggs" too!