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That’s the car! I never seen the f/s ad explaining how the GS came to be. I had only previous posts and threads with that car in it and I assumed that there was a C5 GS.
thanks atleast I now know I wasn’t losing my mind when I thought they made a C5 GS.
While we'd all love to find a special prototype on craigslist, the reality is that prototypes are generally non-saleable vehicles. Cars are often built ahead of regular production that are for evaluation purposes. There may be nothing special about them, no special purpose, other than "let's run these new parts down the assembly line" then the car may be driven by program managers, engineers, etc as part of an evaluation fleet. They may keep an evaluation vehicle for a few thousand miles, or they may keep it for years. Even if it has an early vin for a 2000, this probably would be considered a pilot car for the FRC model, but not a pre-production or prototype because it has a regular production vin and C5's were in production.
Thanks for the response! From my understanding, any 2000 c5 with the vin number prior to 5100019 is a pre production car, at least from what info GM archives has given me, along with NCM. It is a pilot car, as well as a containment vehicle so I, assuming you’re spot on with it being an evaluation car. The timeframe they kept it being discontinued is what is the strange thing about it to me.
While we'd all love to find a special prototype on craigslist, the reality is that prototypes are generally non-saleable vehicles. Cars are often built ahead of regular production that are for evaluation purposes. There may be nothing special about them, no special purpose, other than "let's run these new parts down the assembly line" then the car may be driven by program managers, engineers, etc as part of an evaluation fleet. They may keep an evaluation vehicle for a few thousand miles, or they may keep it for years. Even if it has an early vin for a 2000, this probably would be considered a pilot car for the FRC model, but not a pre-production or prototype because it has a regular production vin and C5's were in production.
This one was sold at auction do vin numbers end with the same numbers a lot
every year the last hand full of numbers start back at 5100001 per c5 model year, but there is a difference amount of pre production cars made for each year before the production cars are built and sold.
My 95 C4 is a pre-production car, #55, made in 94. Sometime they are used for press cars, but nothing special.
Nice! I guess they made a lot for 1995 huh? They only made 18 for the year 2000, the strange part is why they keep the car as long as they did. And it also being the first FRC pre production car built too. Congrats on yours being a piece of history too!
Strangely enough I just decided to check my 21 ZL1 1LE window sticker, that I purchased new and that was actually sold to General Motors LLC as well. Strange luck I would end up with all of these odd ***** lol I do know that that was a promo car that sat down at Daytona international speedway and was NOT a pilot or pre production car. Still cool none the less!
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