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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:13 PM
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Deatailed for 3 weeks and made top ten, great fun.









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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:20 PM
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Hey today i also entered my first car show, i got runner up but had a lots of fun. How did you like your first time?
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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:20 PM
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Congrats on the win!! Makes all that hard work seem worth it.
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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:29 PM
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Congrats! Hard work pays off!
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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Jessestar05
Hey today i also entered my first car show, i got runner up but had a lots of fun. How did you like your first time?

It was fun, long day that started with a breakfast, I am pretty sun burnt but it's all good!
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Old Oct 15, 2011 | 11:50 PM
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Congrats! I have to ask, though---what the heck kind of detailing takes 3 weeks? Do you work on it 5 minutes per day?
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 12:14 AM
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Congrats! I have to ask, though---what the heck kind of detailing takes 3 weeks? Do you work on it 5 minutes per day?
Following a three thousand mile roadtrip with lots of tar my car was on jack stands for 2 weeks just cleaning off the tar under the car fender wells, exhaust, maybe i'm a little ocd. I didn't spend 8 hours per day but certainly a lot more than 5 minutes.
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 05:32 AM
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Looks great and congrats....I have to ask....what is that **** sticking up at the trunk latch? Is it some sort of assist to open the trunk? My FRC is hard to open after i release it. It doesn't pop up very much and I have to kinda pry it up with my fingers.
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 08:15 AM
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Great work pays off.
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by rwilkins
Looks great and congrats....I have to ask....what is that **** sticking up at the trunk latch? Is it some sort of assist to open the trunk? My FRC is hard to open after i release it. It doesn't pop up very much and I have to kinda pry it up with my fingers.
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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...?highlight=pop

Congrats to OP.
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 08:27 AM
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 08:41 AM
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Very cool!

Great looking Vette

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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 11:38 AM
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Looks great and congrats....I have to ask....what is that **** sticking up at the trunk latch? Is it some sort of assist to open the trunk? My FRC is hard to open after i release it. It doesn't pop up very much and I have to kinda pry it up with my fingers.
Just put a yellow golf ball on the same rod stock I made the door props with to shut off the interior lights, it created questions during the show. I have to press the trunk release to get it off.

The trunk popper is above at the upper trunk latch, those work great and I highly recommend them.
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 12:12 PM
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I hope you had fun because that's really what it's all about!
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I went to my first all vette car show yesterday. They had over 180 vettes there. My gf and I were the youngest participants there lol. I did manage to get a sponser award. Its hard to compete against a mob of vettes
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Congrats on the win!! Makes all that hard work seem worth it.
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Your vette looks great, engine bay is awesome (not over done)
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Congrats! Hard work pays off!
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Old Oct 16, 2011 | 04:27 PM
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Cgrat! The first car show I entered, a PT Cruiser won. How gay is that? Th ecategory was "80's to Present" and whether I won or not, there were MANY other winners on th eline besides a PT Cruiser. I think the show was completely BS and fixed.

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