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St. Jude Donor '09
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OK here's one for you. Everything I see on the Corvette Museum site the crossed flags have the Checked flags on the left & the Red flags on the right with the Chevy emblem to the inside and the crest to the outside.
I made this to cover my custom speaker box I built:
Everything I can find on line is laid out like this. I put the cover on the speaker box and notice that the emblem on the rear & the front nose of the 79 is backwards from the one I printed and all of the other ones I can find anywhere else.
The checks are on the right, the red is on the left with the Chevy emblem on the outside & the Crest on the inside.
This is the best picture I have handy of the nose. (i'm at the shop)
What's up with that?
I made this to cover my custom speaker box I built:
Everything I can find on line is laid out like this. I put the cover on the speaker box and notice that the emblem on the rear & the front nose of the 79 is backwards from the one I printed and all of the other ones I can find anywhere else.
The checks are on the right, the red is on the left with the Chevy emblem on the outside & the Crest on the inside.
This is the best picture I have handy of the nose. (i'm at the shop)
What's up with that?
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I looked in the TRIM PARTS CATOLOGUE, and everything they show has the red pennant left and the checkered pennant right. I don't see why Chevrolet would have changed it.
Regards,
Alan
Regards,
Alan
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St. Jude Donor '09
I think Bowling Green's about a 3 hour tour, a 3 hour tour. (ride) ( get it? gilligan's island, ok i was havin some fun. very little fun.)
I'm not real sure about lengthy trips yet in the 79. Haven't had time to get enough of Uncle Bubba's anything for a buck fix-its out yet.
Plus I just put the 650 Holley on and can't seem to get it dialed in quite right. I'm actually thinking about going injected now. I have a manual injector and an electronics one. Leaning more towards the manual cause I think I'll be able to get more power out of it.
I'm not real sure about lengthy trips yet in the 79. Haven't had time to get enough of Uncle Bubba's anything for a buck fix-its out yet.
Plus I just put the 650 Holley on and can't seem to get it dialed in quite right. I'm actually thinking about going injected now. I have a manual injector and an electronics one. Leaning more towards the manual cause I think I'll be able to get more power out of it.
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In addition to being dyslexic, I am also an agnostic insomniac. This means I lie wake at night wondering if there really is a doG.
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The flipped flags with the circle is really the C5 logo. I think Chevrolet wanted to have a unique logo for each generation. So in order to get more milage out of the well know crossed flags look they flipped the C3 flags and put a circle behind them and called it a C5 logo.
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Corvette logo flipped
Yes, the Corvette emblem was flipped around for 1984. That was done on purpose. Jerry Palmer was the Chief Corvette Designer at that time. He felt it needed to be reversed to the other side because it looked more balanced that way. And it has stayed that ever since. Each time the emblem is changed, it's a big deal and when Palmer flipped that around it caused a lot of chatter in GM but in the end they all liked how it looked. You never know, Kirk Bennion, Corvette exterior designer, could change his mind and flip it around the other way for the C7 but I doubt it. He likes it this way.
Enjoy,
Col.
Enjoy,
Col.
