All corvettes are RED
Safety Car
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From: Lacombe Louisiana
No matter where the door handles came from or are shared with,they fit into the overall design nicely and I have only ever heard of one person ever complaining about them.After all how many "different" door handles do you need?
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From: Belleville Il
Parts bin engineering has always been around! They work for me,,gets me in the car
,,and I don't think they look bad at all! Sounds like I have to ad that book to my "To Do" lost as well!!
,,and I don't think they look bad at all! Sounds like I have to ad that book to my "To Do" lost as well!!
Burning Brakes
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I need to read that. I am no a fan of the handles either, but it is not a big deal to me. I just like to have an innovative handle for a corvette. The c3 has the best ones. The c6 is pretty cool on this as well, as long as you don't have a dead battery. The handle was the one plain piece on the car IMO.
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the only thing i dont like is the way the high beam is initiated...pushing the lever forward....ive owned gm my whole life and just miss clicking it torwards me... small....i know. but take it a step further... id like to see the high beam clicker back on the floor from the 70's!! give us A4 guys something to do with our left foot... 
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It is a very good book. I haven't found anything else either that presents as detailed an insight into the making of the C5 as that one.
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I read this book twice before I took delivery of my C5 back in April of 2000. Have an autographed copy of it. The author unfortunately passed a way a couple years ago.
A very good book and a must read for ALL Corvette lovers.
A very good book and a must read for ALL Corvette lovers.
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Another (older) C5 book, pretty good
"CORVETTE C5" by Mike Mueller, a Motorbooks Colortech volume by MBI Publishing, is a good C5 book, allowing for its 1998 publication date which of course leaves out the later cars. It is a soft-cover, color-photo-heavy book with much of the C5 development trials and tribulations covered in a shorter form than in "RED". Also a good chapter on the C5 engine development. Worth having if you like literature to go with your C5.
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"CORVETTE C5" by Mike Mueller, a Motorbooks Colortech volume by MBI Publishing, is a good C5 book, allowing for its 1998 publication date which of course leaves out the later cars. It is a soft-cover, color-photo-heavy book with much of the C5 development trials and tribulations covered in a shorter form than in "RED". Also a good chapter on the C5 engine development. Worth having if you like literature to go with your C5.
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I also enjoyed reading the book. It helps you to understand a lot about the politics that go on behind the scene. It is amazing that the C5 was built with all of the obstacles that it faced.
