Wonder what this is???
03-18-2012, 03:13 PM
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Wonder what this is???
Stripping car inside and out for complete restore.
This is under the rear carpet below the speakers on the floor. It looks like crossed bats - molded into the floor panel. There's another one exactly opposite on the driver's side. It doesnt appear to have any mechanical significance.
Just wondering if anyone knows what these are about? Louisville Slugger baseball bats - just up the road from Bowling Green? Some other meaning?
This is under the rear carpet below the speakers on the floor. It looks like crossed bats - molded into the floor panel. There's another one exactly opposite on the driver's side. It doesnt appear to have any mechanical significance.
Just wondering if anyone knows what these are about? Louisville Slugger baseball bats - just up the road from Bowling Green? Some other meaning?
03-18-2012, 03:44 PM
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There are some older pics of it floating around in the archives ...I think CorvetteRonW has them...Maybe he will chime in...
03-18-2012, 07:14 PM
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Amazing how much I still have to learn. Never noticed those before. If anyone sees Gordon Killebrew at a show this summer be sure and ask him as he will know.
Here is the baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet imprints that are on all later (89-96?) C4 verts near the right rear speaker cutouts. Gordon told me about these when I was showing him my 96 vert. I did not actually see them until I found this scrap car for sale at Carlisle a few years ago.
Here is the baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet imprints that are on all later (89-96?) C4 verts near the right rear speaker cutouts. Gordon told me about these when I was showing him my 96 vert. I did not actually see them until I found this scrap car for sale at Carlisle a few years ago.
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Amazing how much I still have to learn. Never noticed those before. If anyone sees Gordon Killebrew at a show this summer be sure and ask him as he will know.
Here is the baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet imprints that are on all later (89-96?) C4 verts near the right rear speaker cutouts. Gordon told me about these when I was showing him my 96 vert. I did not actually see them until I found this scrap car for sale at Carlisle a few years ago.
Here is the baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet imprints that are on all later (89-96?) C4 verts near the right rear speaker cutouts. Gordon told me about these when I was showing him my 96 vert. I did not actually see them until I found this scrap car for sale at Carlisle a few years ago.
03-18-2012, 07:32 PM
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There was a Chevy TV commercial years ago where Chevy was declared to be as American as baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. Can't remember how far back that commercial played on TV, but I'll bet that the commercial is related to the icons on the car.
03-18-2012, 07:36 PM
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Found this
http://www.jmenterprizesinc.com/Arti..._92/Vaughn.pdf
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9094132AAw5ejj
Found this line on few web pages:
"Chevrolet launched an advertising campaign in the 1990s pronouncing the claim that the Corvette and Chevrolet is as American as apple pie and hot dogs. C4 Corvettes were branded with a hidden picture of an apple pie, a bow-tie, and a hot dog. This picture is hidden beneath the rear cargo carpet."
South Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet
"In South Africa, Chevrolet was GM's main brand name until 1982, with a number of Vauxhall Motors and Holden derivatives being built under the Chevy name from 1964. In the 1970s, the advertising jingle "braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet"[26] (adapted from the US "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pies and Chevrolet") came to epitomise the ideal lifestyle of white male South Africans. Holden in Australia used the jingle "Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars". Originally, Chevrolets were CKD kits of US models assembled in their plant in Port Elizabeth. However, since South Africa was right-hand drive and the US was left-hand drive, along with encouragement by the South African government to use local content, Chevrolets such as the Biscayne were eventually made entirely in South Africa, along with GM's "own car for South Africa": the Ranger."
Google really rocks!!
http://www.jmenterprizesinc.com/Arti..._92/Vaughn.pdf
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9094132AAw5ejj
Found this line on few web pages:
"Chevrolet launched an advertising campaign in the 1990s pronouncing the claim that the Corvette and Chevrolet is as American as apple pie and hot dogs. C4 Corvettes were branded with a hidden picture of an apple pie, a bow-tie, and a hot dog. This picture is hidden beneath the rear cargo carpet."
South Africa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet
"In South Africa, Chevrolet was GM's main brand name until 1982, with a number of Vauxhall Motors and Holden derivatives being built under the Chevy name from 1964. In the 1970s, the advertising jingle "braaivleis, rugby, sunny skies and Chevrolet"[26] (adapted from the US "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pies and Chevrolet") came to epitomise the ideal lifestyle of white male South Africans. Holden in Australia used the jingle "Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars". Originally, Chevrolets were CKD kits of US models assembled in their plant in Port Elizabeth. However, since South Africa was right-hand drive and the US was left-hand drive, along with encouragement by the South African government to use local content, Chevrolets such as the Biscayne were eventually made entirely in South Africa, along with GM's "own car for South Africa": the Ranger."
Google really rocks!!
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nothing like those to be found in the cargo area of my car. all the sponge wire covers have been pulled, nothing.
Ok, I see where those symbols are on the vert, on the underside of the convertible lid. There's that yahoo.com answers post that pointed out a decal with the baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, chevy motif under the rear cargo carpet. I didnt see anything there except the "Stevens Autocarpet" tags from the factory.
Has anyone seen an example of that decal?
Ok, I see where those symbols are on the vert, on the underside of the convertible lid. There's that yahoo.com answers post that pointed out a decal with the baseball, hotdogs, apple pie, chevy motif under the rear cargo carpet. I didnt see anything there except the "Stevens Autocarpet" tags from the factory.
Has anyone seen an example of that decal?
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Was the Corvette the only Chevy with this hieroglyphics?
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I know some of you have not been around long enough to remember those great TV commercials.
There was a time when made in America by Americans meant something to everyone.
So get yer butt's on youtube and replay some of those classics.
There was a time when made in America by Americans meant something to everyone.
So get yer butt's on youtube and replay some of those classics.
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