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Mar 31, 2016 | 06:33 PM

sloopdawg

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Throwback Model

If Corvette were to make a throwback model (kinda' like Ford did with the Mustang) what years would you throwback to?
I think 62 front end and C-5 Rear end. 62 gauges maybe somewhat modified with to date interior. How bout' you?

Mar 31, 2016 | 06:51 PM

jdvann

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This is my kinda throw back Mid year 65-67 built on a C5/C6 running gear.

http://www.crcoachworks.com/

Mar 31, 2016 | 06:53 PM

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I can see that being kinda' cool

Mar 31, 2016 | 06:56 PM

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62 like the one I sold away. Dumbest thing I ever did. Well, at least I still have pics and an avatar.

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Mar 31, 2016 | 07:13 PM

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Although not much of a throw back, thought this one was always cool

Mar 31, 2016 | 11:31 PM

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This is my kinda throw back Mid year 65-67 built on a C5/C6 running gear.

http://www.crcoachworks.com/

IMO, that looks very good.

Apr 1, 2016 | 04:13 AM

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I can see that being kinda' cool

Me too.

Apr 1, 2016 | 06:38 AM

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Apr 1, 2016 | 07:07 AM

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This is my kinda throw back Mid year 65-67 built on a C5/C6 running gear.

http://www.crcoachworks.com/

I also think..."This one pretty much nails it"

Apr 1, 2016 | 07:21 AM

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This is my kinda throw back Mid year 65-67 built on a C5/C6 running gear.

http://www.crcoachworks.com/

This is close, but the front end looks too truck-ish in comparison to today's Corvette. They need to work the lines down in the front and it would work better with the windshield.

They need to take the essence of the 63-67 and graft it into today's technology, not cut and paste.

Apr 1, 2016 | 08:32 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jdvann

This is my kinda throw back Mid year 65-67 built on a C5/C6 running gear.

http://www.crcoachworks.com/

Wow! I'd be seriously tempted to get one of those!!

Apr 1, 2016 | 09:21 AM

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To me throw back styling is kinda a cop out, I hope the corvette never goes that way.

No offense intended to anyone who has a car with this sort of styling. JMHO

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Apr 1, 2016 | 09:30 PM

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To me throw back styling is kinda a cop out, I hope the corvette never goes that way.

No offense intended to anyone who has a car with this sort of styling. JMHO

I agree. No thanks to a throwback. Keep the Corvette moving forward and relevent. Those C1 look-a-like ones they have out there now are the ugliest damn things I've seen.

Apr 1, 2016 | 10:41 PM

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If they were to do one, I fell in love with the C3R concept a few years back, built on a C6.

Apr 2, 2016 | 01:59 AM

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If they were to do one, I fell in love with the C3R concept a few years back, built on a C6.

I really like that one.

Apr 2, 2016 | 09:00 AM

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If they were to do one, I fell in love with the C3R concept a few years back, built on a C6.

Now something like that I might be able to get on board with.

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Yep, that's that one I find most unattractive. Sorry it isn't personal, just not my taste.

Apr 2, 2016 | 09:17 AM

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I really like that one.

I can see doing it as an option to getting one with body damage fixed, but not as a direction for the factory, this one would be nice as a "one of a kind", the angles go together and the car flows, but the c1 with a c5 windshield just doesn't go, too much angle IMO.

To each his own

Apr 2, 2016 | 10:33 AM

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To me throw back styling is kinda a cop out, I hope the corvette never goes that way.

No offense intended to anyone who has a car with this sort of styling. JMHO

IDK....I was always an old dodge fan, so when they re-released the challenger, I was tempted. Especially since I owned a 71, and the first iteration was a modernized 71.

I also really liked to 69 charger. The first concept pics came out about the same time I started thinking about C5s, and with the performance spec they were citing, had the new charger looked like the 69 instead of what they did to it, I might have gone there instead of the C5.

Difference being those nameplates had gone away - not so with the corvette.