chrome letters
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Burning Brakes
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chrome letters
hi, my car is a black `04. i want to add the chrome letters to the rear bumper " corvette " and the vette sig to the rearend. where do i need to purchase them? iv looked in the midamerica mag they have 3 choices, polished,stainless and the other one { dont have the mag in front of me now }. actually they have alot more to choose from but i dont want the plastic ones.
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Well, MID AMERICA is a start, ECKLERS and about a dozen other places in the vendors list on the side. I ordered my lettering from MID AMERICA, but ended up remvoing it later, because I was going for a different look a year and a half later.
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If you want chrome, go with SS Inserts. Excellent quality.
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I was at Mid-america on Monday and picked up a SS "corvette" for my C5. Great people and the SS letters are etremely high quality with beveled outer edges. A little more $$ but well worth it! good luck, Ron 
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I originally placed the beveled chrome letters on my car. Not sure if I got them from Eckler's or MidAmerica. They looked great, but one by one the letters began to fall out. The beveled edges seem to protrude out higher than the fascia lettering indents. The tape did not hold well at all. I think water from car washings got behind the tape. The beveled letters are much heavier than the SS inserts. I have since replaced them with SS inserts from CCA and they are a much better fit and look great! Just a thought from someone that has tried both kinds.
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The first set of letters I got were nice beveled letters. I didn't realize it but the second time I got letters (AH rear endded me) they were lazer cut and had sharp edges. I thought the beveled letters were more elegent and more like original equipment if it was originally supplied.
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hi, my car is a black `04. i want to add the chrome letters to the rear bumper " corvette " and the vette sig to the rearend. where do i need to purchase them? iv looked in the midamerica mag they have 3 choices, polished,stainless and the other one { dont have the mag in front of me now }. actually they have alot more to choose from but i dont want the plastic ones.
If you are interested, I will sell both the front and rear sets together for $50 total including shipping - just PM me if interested.
Last edited by Choreo; May 4, 2007 at 02:15 AM.
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Steve, I just purchased a set of Mirror Polished Stainless Steel Inserts for both the Front and Rear last month. My plan was to have them Black Chrome Plated and install them on my Black Corvette. Two days after I received them, SSInserts announced that they were selling the Black Chrome Inserts for $208 (already plated). It was going to cost me more than that to do what I had planned, so I ordered and installed the SSInserts. Therefore, I have a new set of the "Chrome" looking SS inserts (still shrink-wrapped) from http://autotrimdirect.com/corvette_c5_items.html and http://autotrimdirect.com/Corvette_C5_Items_Pix.html.
If you are interested, I will sell both the front and rear sets together for $50 total including shipping - just PM me if interested.
If you are interested, I will sell both the front and rear sets together for $50 total including shipping - just PM me if interested.
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I understand (I live in Texas too - I just live dangerously).
If anyone else is interested - same deal. I will be posting these in the For Sale section soon as well.