Please, C5 Owners, DONT DO IT !!!
Team Owner
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From: S.W. Ohio. . . . . . NRA Life Member
The first instruction would be...
1. Carefully, take a hack saw and cut 6" straight down the back of your C5 to make it the same size as the C6. Then stick this plastic piece on the top in the middle of the recently chopped off rear end for your third brake light and your C6 tail look-a-like is complete. This is how GM did it.
1. Carefully, take a hack saw and cut 6" straight down the back of your C5 to make it the same size as the C6. Then stick this plastic piece on the top in the middle of the recently chopped off rear end for your third brake light and your C6 tail look-a-like is complete. This is how GM did it.
Safety Car
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From: Cape Coral FL
Originally Posted by Sully C5
There are a number of C6ers & C6 wannabees bashing the 'old looking' C5. Let's not stoop to their level. The C6 is the next generation, with more HP & TQ, plus better handling. Whether you like the styling or not, we should happy GM stepped up to the plate.
Regarding the original post, personally, I love the style of the C5 and do not understand why anyone would bastardize it's look.
Regarding the original post, personally, I love the style of the C5 and do not understand why anyone would bastardize it's look.
Le Mans Master
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From: Still cruising the BVI in my head.
St. Jude Donor '08
Changint the aesthetics of the car is never going to make it a C6, anyone who thinks it is a bit short-sighted...now if you just like the looks of some of the aesthetic features, that's a whole other story...
Personally, I love the C6, I had a deposit on a pre-oreder until the price tag cam in at $53,000...for less than half of that, I have a beautiful C5 that I can have fun modding! But in a few years, I'm sure, I'll own both.
Personally, I love the C6, I had a deposit on a pre-oreder until the price tag cam in at $53,000...for less than half of that, I have a beautiful C5 that I can have fun modding! But in a few years, I'm sure, I'll own both.
Pro
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From: Lantana, TX
Originally Posted by ericwf1
Love that 427!! Would love to go that route but just couldn't sell my wife on that one!! 
Can't believe I never thought of that before! Anyone know what the market is like for one just a few years old, doesn't smoke but has a bit of a whine when you really step on it... just curious of course
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Lepus-temperamentalus
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From: Roswell Ga
My biggest complaint about the C6 is that it really isn't a C6. A new generation shouldn't be just a re-skin of the current car. If you want to call this a C6, then the 1974 model should've been a new generation too. After all, the front and rear were different from the previous years.
A new generation should be something totally new and as nice as the C6 is, it's only a slightly changed C5. Chop a foot off the car, take out the popups, juice the engine a little and you've got a C6. I'm not bad-mouthing the car. I'd like to have a C6 vert, but they AREN'T a new generation of Corvettes.
A new generation should be something totally new and as nice as the C6 is, it's only a slightly changed C5. Chop a foot off the car, take out the popups, juice the engine a little and you've got a C6. I'm not bad-mouthing the car. I'd like to have a C6 vert, but they AREN'T a new generation of Corvettes.
Melting Slicks
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From: FT Lewis WA
Originally Posted by JACKAL0PE
My biggest complaint about the C6 is that it really isn't a C6. A new generation shouldn't be just a re-skin of the current car. If you want to call this a C6, then the 1974 model should've been a new generation too. After all, the front and rear were different from the previous years.
A new generation should be something totally new and as nice as the C6 is, it's only a slightly changed C5. Chop a foot off the car, take out the popups, juice the engine a little and you've got a C6. I'm not bad-mouthing the car.
A new generation should be something totally new and as nice as the C6 is, it's only a slightly changed C5. Chop a foot off the car, take out the popups, juice the engine a little and you've got a C6. I'm not bad-mouthing the car.
The C6 is a Euro C5 freak.
The C5 
Le Mans Master
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From: Central Coast CA
Originally Posted by pjk
If GM had replaced the C4 with the C6 in1997 and introduced the C5 this summer,people would be drooling over them.
I agree. I don't think the C6 evolved enough to be that much of an improvement in body design.
