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Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Hamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Potts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Hamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Potts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him Kenny search for the stolen car.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins, starring Creator/MarkHamill (in his first role after ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'') and Creator/AnniePotts (in her big-screen debut).
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the movie, Kenny's shop teacher Ed [=McGrath=] (Eugene Roche) tells him, "They're mechanical devices. They always let you down. You buy them, you drive them, you break them, you fix them, you sell them. Goods in the marketplace. Easy come, easy go. Don't get too attached to this car." [[spoiler:It turns out [=McGrath=] stole the car to pay the mortgage and was trying to stop Kenny from getting too upset about it.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the movie, Kenny's shop teacher Ed [=McGrath=] (Eugene Roche) (Creator/EugeneRoche) tells him, "They're mechanical devices. They always let you down. You buy them, you drive them, you break them, you fix them, you sell them. Goods in the marketplace. Easy come, easy go. Don't get too attached to this car." [[spoiler:It turns out [=McGrath=] stole the car to pay the mortgage and was trying to stop Kenny from getting too upset about it.]]
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill in his first role after ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'') helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy
Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Hamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill) (Creator/MarkHamill in his first role after ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'') helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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* ChainPain: When Kenny escapes the car thieves, one of them attacks him with a chain.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: When one of the car thieves gets in a freeway accident, his car horn starts blaring. He shoots the car and makes it explode just to get the horn to stop.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: When one of the car thieves gets in a freeway accident, his car horn starts blaring. He shoots the car and makes car, causing it explode to explode, just to get the horn to stop.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his shop class, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his auto shop class, class project, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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* DownInTheDumps: The movie opens in a junkyard as the students look for a car to fix up for their auto shop project.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: When one of the car thieves gets in a freeway accident, his car horn starts blaring. He shoots the car and makes it explode just to get the horn to stop.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: When one of the car thieves gets in a freeway accident, his car horn starts blaring. He shoots the car and makes it explode just to get the horn to stop.
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''Corvette Summer'' is a 1978 American adventure comedy film. Car-obsessed teenager Kenny Dantley (Creator/MarkHamill) helps build a customized Corvette Stingray for his shop class, but the car is stolen almost as soon as it's finished. Kenny hitchhikes to UsefulNotes/LasVegas, where he hears the car has been spotted. Along the way he meets Vanessa (Creator/AnniePotts), a runaway and self-described prostitute-in-training, who helps him search for the stolen car.
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!! ''Corvette Summer'' contains examples of:
* FiveFiveFive: The escort service Vanessa briefly works for uses this.
* BookDumb: Kenny doesn't care about most of his classes. He gets a D-minus on one exam.
* BringingRunningShoesToACarChase: Kenny spots the Corvette on several occasions while working in Las Vegas, but his attempts at chasing after it on foot aren't very successful.
* CoolCar: The Corvette.
* DiegeticSwitch: The background music that plays during Kenny's attempts at hitchhiking is the music Annie is listening to on headphones when she picks him up.
* FakeoutEscape: When Kenny's locked in a supply closet by the car thieves, he escapes by smashing a window and hiding in a barrel of oil.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the movie, Kenny's shop teacher Ed [=McGrath=] (Eugene Roche) tells him, "They're mechanical devices. They always let you down. You buy them, you drive them, you break them, you fix them, you sell them. Goods in the marketplace. Easy come, easy go. Don't get too attached to this car." [[spoiler:It turns out [=McGrath=] stole the car to pay the mortgage and was trying to stop Kenny from getting too upset about it.]]
* AGlassInTheHand: Kenny crushes the styrofoam Coca-Cola cup he's holding while he yells at his classmate Kootz (Creator/DannyBonaduce) for letting the Corvette get stolen.
* KidsDrivingCars: Kenny learned to drive when he was nine and was racing cars by age thirteen.
* LivesInAVan: Vanessa lives in a van with her name painted on the side and a waterbed in the back.
* PunkInTheTrunk: After Kenny escapes from the car thieves, the people who drive him back to Vanessa make him ride in the trunk so he doesn't get oil all over the interior.
* SexForServices: Vanessa says the work on her van was done "in exchange for services rendered." When Kenny asks, "What kind of services?" she says, "You know what I mean."
* VoiceoverLetter: Kenny writes to [=McGrath=] about his progress in tracking down his car.
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!! ''Corvette Summer'' contains examples of:
* FiveFiveFive: The escort service Vanessa briefly works for uses this.
* BookDumb: Kenny doesn't care about most of his classes. He gets a D-minus on one exam.
* BringingRunningShoesToACarChase: Kenny spots the Corvette on several occasions while working in Las Vegas, but his attempts at chasing after it on foot aren't very successful.
* CoolCar: The Corvette.
* DiegeticSwitch: The background music that plays during Kenny's attempts at hitchhiking is the music Annie is listening to on headphones when she picks him up.
* FakeoutEscape: When Kenny's locked in a supply closet by the car thieves, he escapes by smashing a window and hiding in a barrel of oil.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the movie, Kenny's shop teacher Ed [=McGrath=] (Eugene Roche) tells him, "They're mechanical devices. They always let you down. You buy them, you drive them, you break them, you fix them, you sell them. Goods in the marketplace. Easy come, easy go. Don't get too attached to this car." [[spoiler:It turns out [=McGrath=] stole the car to pay the mortgage and was trying to stop Kenny from getting too upset about it.]]
* AGlassInTheHand: Kenny crushes the styrofoam Coca-Cola cup he's holding while he yells at his classmate Kootz (Creator/DannyBonaduce) for letting the Corvette get stolen.
* KidsDrivingCars: Kenny learned to drive when he was nine and was racing cars by age thirteen.
* LivesInAVan: Vanessa lives in a van with her name painted on the side and a waterbed in the back.
* PunkInTheTrunk: After Kenny escapes from the car thieves, the people who drive him back to Vanessa make him ride in the trunk so he doesn't get oil all over the interior.
* SexForServices: Vanessa says the work on her van was done "in exchange for services rendered." When Kenny asks, "What kind of services?" she says, "You know what I mean."
* VoiceoverLetter: Kenny writes to [=McGrath=] about his progress in tracking down his car.
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