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Old 11-24-2012, 09:02 AM
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Old 11-24-2012, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by MiguelsC2
Obviously styling experts went through this before the C2 was released. Looks like 4 tail lights won the decision.So much so, that the 67 received it's back up light in rectangular form.
Sorry Miguel, it was the styling experts at GM that gave root to the 6 tail light mod not us.... GM Styling/Design department thru the last Midyear model year concept car made had 6 tails lights in effort to correct managements use of 4 tail lights instead of 6. It was GM's styling, not us who are the ones that put 6 tail light in C2 concepts that we have been copying since.

You need to do your research on GM's C2 generation styling/concept car as well as GM exec cars, COPO cars built for GM exec friends, 64 Worlds Fair car, etc.

I did not choose to put 6 tail lights in my 64 because it was a craze started by us, but because it was a craze started by GM's styling/concept cars....

If you can't find info on GM C2 concept cars by doing your on research, just do a search on prior threads and posts on 6 tail light subject by me in effort to educate members here. You might enjoy speed reading the pictures...

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Old 11-24-2012, 02:32 PM
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another vote for "C" - 3 red (picture copied from a previous post)

Old 11-24-2012, 02:38 PM
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I like the B one
Old 11-24-2012, 02:40 PM
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better yet make all six red and add the 67 back up housing and lenz something way different...but still corvette
Old 11-26-2012, 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by MiguelsC2
Obviously styling experts went through this before the C2 was released. Looks like 4 tail lights won the decision.So much so, that the 67 received it's back up light in rectangular form.
You don't actually think the styling experts had the last say on everything back then do you? The bean counters may have nixed it for all we know, seeing how Duntov's 57 Corvette SS race car had 6, and then the 59 Stingray racer penned by Shinoda followed suite with 6, along with the Mako Shark and Mako Shark II concept cars = 6. Even many of Shinoda's original production car renderings for the Stingray had 6 tail lights as well...

Those dastardly 'glass hackers of the 60's and 70's were just stealing the idea from GM design.....
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Old 11-26-2012, 08:07 AM
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6 red!

66 GTO and trempest lights looked good too.

The 67 backup light is a styling abonination.
Old 11-26-2012, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by bluzrocker
better yet make all six red and add the 67 back up housing and lenz something way different...but still corvette
Plenty of California '67s have just that configuration, some right from the dealers' lots.
Old 11-26-2012, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by oldgold49er
I would pick option A. It does look like the old Impala configuration. Never could figure out why the 6 tail lights were not carried over from the Impala.:
Very simple, in the mid-'60s, Corvettes were lucky to be a break-even product for GM, they survived the first 10 years or so on "prestige". Impala, on the other hand, was the highest-volume, highest-profit model in the Chevrolet line, far outranking the plastic two-seater in importance.
Old 11-26-2012, 10:07 AM
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I just love the look of the Maco Shark II
The best replica built Maco i have ever seen is in Norway
The car have the same front lights as the original one and rear bumpers that comes out when putting the car in reverse
Also have the roof as the original

The first Maco the owner built(picture 4 from the left)was ruined in a fire i think so the one on the on the other pictures is the second Maco he built

A lot of colors on this car though
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Old 11-26-2012, 10:13 AM
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I remember seeing a custom that had 6 reds and they put 6" LED white strips in the bumpers for the back up lights. It looked really good! If you had a set of bumpers the needed to be rechomed I would do it but I wouldn't do it to a nice set of bumpers.
Old 11-26-2012, 02:15 PM
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Default Let's Put the Shoe on the Other Foot

Let's swap ends. Now, how many for six? Why should this be any different?

Old 11-26-2012, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by toddalin
Let's swap ends. Now, how many for six? Why should this be any different?

:will y:
Old 11-26-2012, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by toddalin
Let's swap ends. Now, how many for six? Why should this be any different?


Most don't cry when ANYTHING is tried on a mere '64. Now how about six turn signals, horizontal or vertical arrays?

-a '64 owner since 1966
Old 11-27-2012, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Poorhousenext
Leave the backup lights out and keep all 6 red. If you want backup lights, mount them elsewhere. The white lens breaks up the effect.

But I'm biased...LOL



I agree with Jere



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