Cruise day today and a member of our Club showed up with a 50th Anniversary Edition. Thought you might be interested.







I hid my 1979 beside a Camaro ;).




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Paul, what did you think up close?

 

Chris,
I have some opinions/impressions but will wait until others have a peek and comment.

 

It's nice and I'd love to have one but it's not what it could have been.
I got to see a buetiful 2003 wellow coup last month with 50th badging, gave me a woody just looken at it. :jester
Make that yellow :D





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Its a nice car but its kinda been done already :D

 

i like it and would like to have one. :yesnod:

 

[QUOTE]Cruise day today and a member of our Club showed up with a 50th Anniversary Edition. Thought you might be interested.


Man! I didn't know the 50th was going to retro. I just gotta have one.



:jester

 

What is the big deal about the 50th? Nothing. It could have been something, but Chevy decided to go the cheap route. Paint and interior. Big woof. I like the blue shark in the background better.

 

It's an absolutely gorgeous car. No doubt about it. The paint has gold flecks that cannot be seen in a digital pic. Fit and finish looked just fine. Interior was Star Trek complex and functional. I would love to own one if my bank account permitted. Truly a magnificent piece of engineering as all C5s are. World-class.

But I did come away with a sense of disappointment, quite frankly. It is basically a re-badged C5 for which you pay a premium of about $6,000US. The window sticker showed ~$85,000CDN or about $55,000US. The 50th emblems are on the front as shown, on sides of front fenders and on back lid. Leather seats are embossed also. The wheels seem standard unless I missed something. They are certainly not highly polished. The owner mentioned that it was priced more than a Z06, and that will deter the performance people from buying. Again a wonderful car but I think people will wait for the C6.

Going back to 1978, the Silver Anniversary (25th) Edition was no great marketing/sales success either. Just some emblems and two-tone paint. I believe GM has dropped the ball again. Perhaps the 50th could be salvaged by putting a Z06 engine under the hood?? Perhaps yes but not really in my opinion. The 1982 suffered the same fate with the anticipated new body style of the 1984.

Again, you have to love this car! But the emblems do not make it terribly special.




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But that is the Chevy way, paint and emblems. Nothing special.


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Saw a red one at a local show ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,looked like GM raided a pep boys store and glued all the crap they could find on it !!!

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Just buy a used model C5 (cheap) and repaint it, change the seats and add the 50th badges...Who would know.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

The Toronto guys saw the 50th anniv. car back at the Hillfest in June. It's a major disappointment. An opportunity lost.

 

Thats not entirely true - In 78 we saw a significant change in the body style that was at that time just a decade old (no change for the 50th).

Horsepower was up in the L-82 and L-48 (but apparently not so for the 50th)

Media hype was huge and people paid outrageous sums for the pace car (seems the same is so for the 50th)

I would say the 78 was a better attempt at an anniversary celebration - certainly much more so than the 50th.

On the other hand - I might just be a little biased :lol:

 

Good point! The back window was radically changed. I remember the hype on the Pace Car. Of course the investment potential for those cars never materialized although some EBay sellers do not seem to know that....That 1978 Pace Car with 11 miles on the odometer seems to pop up from time-to-time as an example.

 

:U

 

Can you be more specific? ;)

 

The 50th Anniversarys look OK, but doesn't look to special to me. IMO, If I was going to buy a 50th, I'd just wait for the C6. I believe the C6 will be more than just World class, if GM decides to put some more money in it and forget about their proposed budget. Like get a new designer that knows what he is doing. After all, they'll make it all back in the long run :yesnod:
BTW, I looked at a 2003 at a car show the other day. No 50th, but probably painted the same way the 50th's are. The paint looked great.....if you didn't count all the runs it had in it :(

 

The 50th has champagne painted wheels, and don't forget the new Magnetic Selective control ride. Not a total dissapointment but still could have been more.

 

First of all, every vette is great! I really like the colour of the 50th, both interior and exterior. The colours are exactly what I would like to have in C5. It seems that most of the people were expecting something exceptional for the 50th model. I was waiting for something also until I checked the history:
-93, 40th ann. only paint and little stuff, no performance mods
-88, 35th ann. only paint and little stuff, no performance mods
-78, 25th ann. only paint and little stuff, no performance mods

Somebody mentioned the bubble back window for -78, in my opinion it is nothing special. The same window was offered to every other vette that year also! It would have been different if the window was only ann. model and next year in every car...

My personal opinion is that the 50th is littlebit better than what the history promised with the magnetic ride control... Of course it would have been nice to have something spectacular, but it would have been very expensive for Chevy, i guess that buyers would have not been ready pay huge amount extra for the 50th. Most of the 50th buyers are not as crazy for corvettes as we are... Every company wants to make some money and I think Chevy can make more money by this kind of anniversary model than with extremely expensive special model. Chevy has no interest how expensive the 50th is going to be after 20 years, only intention for them is how much money the model is going to bring them in this year... :smash:

Sorry for the long post, this is just what I've been thinking after reading all these "50th model is piece of s....t" posts... :crazy: