1967 Sting Ray Corvette in Con Air

What car can credibly adorn the plate "AZZ KIKR"?  And just as curiously, what profession should a guy have to even want a vanity plate that says "AZZ KIKR"?

From the testorone-filled Jerry Bruckheimer movie Con Air with action stars Nicholas Cage (Gone in 60 Seconds), John Cusack (Runaway Jury), John Malkovich (The Killing Fields), Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible), Danny Trejo (Heat), Steve Buscemi (The Island), and Colm Meaney (The Rock),  we know the car to be a 1967 Sting Ray Corvette and the owner as a brash and arrogant DEA agent.  Agent Duncan Malloy (Colm Meaney) is the AZZ KIKR!

Other professions that I deem worthy of the vanity plate are pro wrestlers like Razor Ramon, gangsta rappers, and 80s hairband rockers.  That name plate would just be too much for everybody else.

As for the car, AZZ KIKR might be a little misplaced because the 1967 Sting Ray Corvette is an elegant automobile and considered to be one of the most beautiful cars.  Sports Car International Magazine lists it as one of the Top Sports Cars of the 1960s.  Too bad it was destroyed completely in the movie.

I'm not so sure that the Corvette in the movie was indeed a 1967.  And I hope it wasn't since it was totalled.


But the Corvette could easily have been a '64, '65', or a '66.  Online references seem to indicate a 1967 Chevy Corvette including IslandNet.com (Chevrolet Corvette References in Pop Culture) and IMCDB.org.

Here's a video clip of a 1967 Corvette Super Stingray that went up for bidding at Barrett-Jackson auction Scottsdale, Arizona in 2011. Looks pretty cool.

Photos of 1967 Chevy Corvette

The 1967 Chevy Corvette is one of a kind

From what I understand, 1967 Chevy Corvettes are rare and highly prized by car collectors.  It is a second generation Corvette whose style was introduced in 1963 and nicknamed Sting Ray to distinguish from the first generation.  GM was suppose to roll out a 3rd generation Corvette in 1967, but production was pushed to the next year for some reason.  '67 Corvettes were still produced and sold, but it was the 1966 model with a 427 cid L-88 engine.  And the body styling for the '66 was fundamentally the same as the 1963 Corvette without the unique split rear window.  Only 216 L-88s were made in the 3 years they were offered: 1967, 1968, and 1969.  That's why I hope the movie makers did not destroy an actual one in Con Air.