Oh, I have to DEFINITELY agree about the Corvette! Those classic ones are the best, just the sexiest cars on the road. The engines just GROWL - they sound like they mean business!
However, I would disagree on the year - 2 years later in 1963 is the beginning of the Stingray models. The coupe of that year is the ONLY one with the famous "split window" design.
When I'm a bazillionaire, I want to drive a 1963 Corvette Stingray coupe. Sometimes. I live in Florida and most of those classic cars have no AC.
My Dad has a '63 convertible that he's had forever - he bought it years ago when he first started working and just keeps tinkering with it to keep it running. It needs a new paint job (starting to "craze" - get tiny cracks in it) and a new accelerator pump (if you haven't driven it in a long while, you have to unscrew the lid on the carbouretor and pour a little gas in), but darn it if it's not still a sweet little car. Not that Dad's ever let me drive it. Sigh...
Oh well, I'll just have to work hard and buy my own! Ha!
THe reason I had to go with the '61 is that's the one my dad has. He's a huge classic car fan, and at one point had three Corvettes that he had bought cheap and fixed up, all with original parts. I think two of them were 1961s (one black and one red), and the other was a '63 (that one was red). When he got married to my mom, he sold two of them off to pay for their first house, but he kept the third one for nostalgia sake.
The engines just GROWL - they sound like they mean business! 
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