Finally got some Photos listed for 2010GS
07-26-2011, 12:53 PM
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Finally got some Photos listed for 2010GS
I finally got photos to the forum profile and gallery. It's my 13th vette and it so far has been a real joy to work on and of course drive.
07-26-2011, 01:05 PM
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And with a titanium interior and real carbon interior console and speedo side as adds it is absolutely gorgeous. It's got led's in and out 9 even colored led's in the clear sidemarkers and led door handles which all make it pop.
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Very cool. 
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yup, 13th ! After so many you get to know the in's and out's of what to buy, what to mod and what to leave alone depending on your use. You also get a great sense of how GM lays thease cars out. This particular 2010 has had the complete interior and Doors disassembeld, dynamated and an added sound insulator layer fully taped installed to the complete interior cabin, cargo area and doors. The HU was repalced with a DNX9960 Kenwood, JL 600-6way amp with very high-end Focal speakers all around along with ungraded wiring for the entire sound system. The existing wiring harness was left in place for anyone who wants to make it OEM again. The interior is much cooler now and the road noise is ONLY there when you punch it but not sitting in your ear all the time. It was a ton of work and not for the timid. It also has a lot of really nice mods that are not really in you face but when a guy sits in the car you can really see what carfeul planning and execution does.
One of the things that guys flip over is my rear camera is not only switchable by putting the car into reverse but also through the HU while the car is NOT in reverse or just sitting. The other is; I wired the HU unit to also switch my NPP exhaust from right on the touch screen. The HU will keep that setting ( mild or wild) after the car shuts off and after it re-starts. Lots of other nice touches that make this one COOOOOOOOL Ride.
One of the things that guys flip over is my rear camera is not only switchable by putting the car into reverse but also through the HU while the car is NOT in reverse or just sitting. The other is; I wired the HU unit to also switch my NPP exhaust from right on the touch screen. The HU will keep that setting ( mild or wild) after the car shuts off and after it re-starts. Lots of other nice touches that make this one COOOOOOOOL Ride.
07-26-2011, 07:04 PM
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In that series I had a 2-70's, 71, 72, 76, 78 pacer and L82 anniversary with oyster and 2-80s'. One of the 80's was an L82 with claret and dove gray interior which every loved.
I like the chrome bumpers and shark-like chisel look of the earlier C3's. Those had lots of nice features, hidden wipers for example. And if you can get a LTI then you're talking. LOL My favorite of those early ones was the 70 Donneybrook green with tan interior with the LT1. I actually did a ground up on that one and was a great car and chnaged the solid body mounts to the rubber mounts which came out in 76. Those earlier ones also had the removal rear window so you can really hear your exhaust over the rear deck quite nicely without killing you ears. Biggest issue then was the body panel alignment and quality of the actual glass finish. That was like wave heaven. The body finish really changed big time once they left St.Louis.
Good luck - some of the colors then were not very popular then or are today. Some are the good old standards that never go wrong.
SAVE THE WAVE !!!!!!!!!!
07-27-2011, 10:50 AM
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Thanks. It's nice to have plan come together like this Grand Sport project did.
It took me a day to clean off the drool and fingerprints from a lot of people who somehow couldn't keep their hands off the car at the Bloomington Gold event last month. All-in-all I suppose that's why many of us enjoy showing off our Corvettes so other can see what their buddies can achieve.
Thanks again to my Corvette colleagues for the kind words and confirmation that all that work wasn't just a mind exercise and knowing I started with a great baseline in color and options to work from. Few more things I'd do to it but I know there's a point when you cross the line into a whole different world of BLING. Then the comments form fellow owners will be quite different.
There's a lot of poorly designed and produced aftermarket stuff out there and yes there are some good ideas that even GM now has opted to offer but it's that fine balance of knowing what to AVOID from the bling scale and still make the car quite uniquely yours. I used to do extreme custom fiberglass and paint jobs on Vettes strictly for show but I can tell you I wouldn't be caught dead driving that same car on the street. Way over the top, so these days I concentrate on tweaking where GM left off for whatever reason. It is a passion all onto itself as many of us Corvette owners know. The Corvette is the heart and sole of the American love affair with the automobile. Bring on the C7 !!!!
It took me a day to clean off the drool and fingerprints from a lot of people who somehow couldn't keep their hands off the car at the Bloomington Gold event last month. All-in-all I suppose that's why many of us enjoy showing off our Corvettes so other can see what their buddies can achieve.
Thanks again to my Corvette colleagues for the kind words and confirmation that all that work wasn't just a mind exercise and knowing I started with a great baseline in color and options to work from. Few more things I'd do to it but I know there's a point when you cross the line into a whole different world of BLING. Then the comments form fellow owners will be quite different.
There's a lot of poorly designed and produced aftermarket stuff out there and yes there are some good ideas that even GM now has opted to offer but it's that fine balance of knowing what to AVOID from the bling scale and still make the car quite uniquely yours. I used to do extreme custom fiberglass and paint jobs on Vettes strictly for show but I can tell you I wouldn't be caught dead driving that same car on the street. Way over the top, so these days I concentrate on tweaking where GM left off for whatever reason. It is a passion all onto itself as many of us Corvette owners know. The Corvette is the heart and sole of the American love affair with the automobile. Bring on the C7 !!!!