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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 09:26 AM
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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?
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 12:34 PM
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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.
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 01:07 PM
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It changed starting with the 1984 model year. Dyslexic C4 designer, maybe??? {...and don't shoot me over that...My son-in-law is dyslexic...}
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 01:34 PM
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Donnie....Aren't you fairly close to the Corvette Museum? Take a run up there and look. Let us know.
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^^^^^^ Gotcha, Thanks. So I just need to do a reprint.
I was thinkin maybe Uncle Bubba got him some emblems at wally world and stuck em on my car.
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 01:44 PM
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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.
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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by 7T1vette
It changed starting with the 1984 model year. Dyslexic C4 designer, maybe??? {...and don't shoot me over that...My son-in-law is dyslexic...}
Correct. The emblem was flipped starting with C4 production and has been that way since.

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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Old Sep 20, 2008 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 7T1vette
It changed starting with the 1984 model year. Dyslexic C4 designer, maybe??? {...and don't shoot me over that...My son-in-law is dyslexic...}
Maybe they mirror imaged the logo in their graphics program and didn't notice.
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Originally Posted by Mike Ward
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.
I prefer my afflictions, Dyslexic agnostic alcoholic.
Means you get to sit in the pub all day.......
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Originally Posted by RHD '68 L89
I prefer my afflictions, Dyslexic agnostic alcoholic.
Means you get to sit in the pub all day.......
James....PUB? Is that like a bar? My daughter lives in Macau, China. Her best friend she says is from OZ. (I guess she means Australia). She tells me they pick out tourists by what they wear. Americans wear shorts, tennis shoes and t-shirts. Australians wear flip flops and t-shirts with holes in them.

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Looks like the black and white squares on the flags are in different places too! PG.
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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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Although the C3 and C5 flags are similar, their design is quite different. You can 'flip' them and see what comes out...but it won't be the same.
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C4, C5, and C6 crossed flags are different from C3s. I'm guessing the design you used was C5 or C6.
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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.

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