Unique rear spoiler
Jan 20, 2020 | 06:25 PM
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Unique rear spoiler
I don't think I've ever seen this one before.
I do NOT like the lower spoiler (or whatever it is called) but the rear spoiler, well, intrigues me. Is it a one off?
Jan 20, 2020 | 06:29 PM
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looks like a Trans Am spoiler ???
Jan 20, 2020 | 06:30 PM
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I've seen it in catalogs, a long time ago, but I don't recall if it was an Eckler's or a Mid-America catalog.....
Jan 20, 2020 | 07:36 PM
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Jan 20, 2020 | 08:08 PM
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looks like a Trans Am spoiler ???
that was exactly my first thought
Jan 20, 2020 | 08:14 PM
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looks like a Trans Am spoiler ???
I had one that looked almost exactly like the upper rear spoiler on a 1988 Trans Am. The TA was a larger car so the spoiler looked a little more size appropriate on that body.
I don't remember ever seeing anything like the lower valence spoiler/diffuser/whatever. It doesn't appear from the photos that the outer edges of it even attach to the car. Can't imagine it doing much to have a beneficial effect on air flow routing.
Jan 20, 2020 | 08:37 PM
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Jan 20, 2020 | 08:42 PM
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looks like a Trans Am spoiler ???
......and it sorta also LOOKS like a Trans Am...
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Jan 20, 2020 | 09:06 PM
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Jan 20, 2020 | 09:15 PM
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Jan 20, 2020 | 09:36 PM
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I've seen it in catalogs, a long time ago, but I don't recall if it was an Eckler's or a Mid-America catalog.....
A company named ACI Corvette made those pieces and a number of other body parts. Not sure if they are still around.
http://acivette.com/
edit - just looked them up and still around
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Jan 21, 2020 | 09:32 AM
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That's a WS6 package for the c5.
Jan 21, 2020 | 10:29 AM
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If one was racing their Vette at a 1/4 mile drag strip, that rear wing would be totally cool, but not the lower exhaust one.
Jan 21, 2020 | 02:11 PM
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Have never seen one like that in person on a C5 in all the years that generation has been out - perhaps for a reason. It is different, I will give it that.
Jan 21, 2020 | 02:49 PM
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"Unique" is putting it nicely, it's fuggles