Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette was a 20th century automobile used on Earth. They were later valued as antiques, with at least one surviving well into the 23rd century.
Sometime during the early to mid-2240s of the alternate reality, 's stepfather owned a vintage red 1965 Corvette Sting Ray C2 convertible. Kirk went for a joyride in the car, was chased by a police officer on a hovercruiser, and bailed out just as the car fell into a massive quarry. ()
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=== Background information ===
Triple vertical brake vents (behind the front wheels) identify the car in the film as a 1965/1966 Corvette C2. The lack of the "Corvette" name on the left front hood further identifies it as a 1965 model.
In a deleted scene from , it is revealed that the 1965 Corvette Stingray actually belonged to George Kirk. In the aftermath of George's death, Jim and George Jr.'s uncle, , treated the car as his own. Jim found the keys to the car while washing it, and drove off with it in an act of defiance against the abusive Frank.
A critic for suggested that the destruction of a 1960s model Corvette symbolized J.J. Abrams jettisoning the original incarnation of Star Trek, commenting, "Is it just a coincidence that the car was released during the same decade that the original Star Trek television series premiered? I believe that by throwing the 1960's era car off a cliff, Abrams was making a statement – 'this is not your father's Star Trek movie – we're throwing all that stuff away, off a cliff no less. This is the new Star Trek." However, Abrams himself denied that this was his intention, remarking, "The idea was to show the renegade, young Kirk and have a wildly anachronistic scene where you had an earthbound, almost back-looking scene combined with a forward-looking futuristic scene technologically. It had nothing to do with that kind of metaphor." 
=== Apocrypha ===
In the ization of , the Corvette had been a prized possession of Kirk's father, and young Jim – who had been washing it – embarked on the joyride after being told by his own brother that their stepfather planned to sell the car, behind 's back, while she was off-planet.
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