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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by racebum
the guy who use to make those kits used the business to hide drug money. kits fit like complete sh*t and took forever to make line up right. they were somewhat popular back in 99-01 when the c5 was a brand new car. notice how the gills do not line up correctly?

you're looking at a blast from the past
OK, are we talkin' about the C4-C5 conversion or the C5-C1 conversion?
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by jrose7004
I think I remember seeing a C5 to C6 converstion on here somewhere.
Fast forward 10 years from now and we will be seeing similar C5/C6 hybrids for sale on e-bay and the C8 owners will be laughing at them!
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 08:49 AM
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Waste of an '84.
I don't care for any of the Corvette generation conversion kits.
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 09:14 AM
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Yeah, but you could be the first guy in the neighborhood with an LT1 powered C5! Talk about rare!
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 09:34 AM
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$14500 for that????? That seller has his head in the sand if he thinks it will bring that kind of price.
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 09:38 AM
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by 0H1Z06
Yeah, but you could be the first guy in the neighborhood with an LT1 powered C5! Talk about rare!
or better in a 84, 200hp L83 powered C5 YES!!!
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 04:13 PM
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 04:23 PM
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Butt ugly!
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 04:34 PM
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 10:52 PM
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I actually seen someone driving that last week. Looks horrible in person..
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 11:14 PM
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That's not worth $3K
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Old Oct 18, 2012 | 11:19 PM
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Just don't get why one would waste time and money doing that...must have been a write off to start
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Old Oct 19, 2012 | 07:42 AM
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When the C-5 first came out these kits were semi popular. I'm sure there's still few around.

Back 'in the day', many people modified 63 split window coupes by removing the 'split' to make their cars look like the updated 64 model.

It's just the nature of people to have the latest look.

This doesn't make it right, but it happens, and a few survive.
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