Pewter Predators
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From: Gilbert Az
Pewter Predators
There as a thread out there recently talking about various colors of pewter. Why did it get closed?? I had the classic torch red C4 but when I went to the C5 I wanted something other than red or black. Since I live in Az I definitely wanted a vert. After several months of searching the Forum I found my prize...a '02 pewter vert down in Tucson. Went down just to "look" at it and wound up driving it home. It was the perfect desert color for me.
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From: Simi Valley CA
I'm happy with my Pewter C5! I've had just about every color vette at one time or another. With this last vette, I had made up my mind that I wanted a pewter vette with low miles. Took close to a year to find just the right one. A lot of looking and waiting, but the right one finally showed up and I grabbed it. 
That was about nine years ago and still happy with my choice. 
That was about nine years ago and still happy with my choice.
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Pewter was my choise too. I ended up buying the first car I looked at. It kept drawing me back. I thought I wanted blue, but couldn't get the Pewter vert out of my mind. Altough the black interior is very hot, after sitting out in the sun all day. I keep the wheel covered with a towel when parked at work.
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My '00 was pewter in color - absolutely loved the car and the color was amazing. I regretted selling it right after the new owner took possession.
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I love my 2001 Pewter Coupe - I call it the lazy man's Vette - always looks clean ! It's an awesome car ! Mine is my daily driver in the summer so by Sat when it gets a good cleaning it will look like brand new again
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Most of my Corvettes, or any other car for that matter were usually basic black or white. I always believed flashy cars didn't need flashy paint. When I started looking for my retirement Corvette, pewter or silver were the only ones I considered and I have no idea what happened to cause the change.
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I love my 2000 pewter. I just added mostly black rims with machine faced double stars and tinted the windows. I love how it looks. Also painted the lower tail end black just above the exhaust. Give it a whole different look. And yes I love that it doesn't show that it is dirty but just brush up against it with light colored pants and you know.
Enjoy it.
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First Corvette at age 66 (5 years ago). It sat in the Chevy dealer showroom. First one I looked at and didn't even test drive it. Put $50. down to hold it till the next day, picked it up and when I drove away for the first time, you couldn't get the smile off my face with a hand grenade. The thing is though, they advertised it as "Galaxy Silver". What's up with that? Looks like pewter to me. 
