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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 02:03 AM
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I have a DSOM coupe. I will have some pics up tommorow. Im wanting to see some corvettes with this color. Im looking to do some mods in the future and I need some ideas. Thanks
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 04:38 AM
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Best color ever on a Vette
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any other color comes in second.

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Ok...what does DSOM mean?

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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 11:53 AM
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Ok...what does DSOM mean?

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Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic, a mighty fine color.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 11:54 AM
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Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic. Only offered in model year 2005 and the first 3/4 of 2006.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 12:13 PM
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Thanks Guys!!
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 12:21 PM
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Daytona Sunset Orange Metallic, a mighty fine color.
One of the best colors (besides Monterey Red Metallic).
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Sorta crappy pix, but you get the idea.







I love by body color emblems. Tale, and Fog lights are blacked out too. Goes well with the dark wheels.
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I had an 05 DSOM coupe before trading it for my CTSV. Loved the color, though the ad-man who thought it up was obviously geographically challenged. Last time I looked at the map, seemed to me that it should have been Daytona Sunrise Orange Metallic, not sunset.
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Congrats and welcome! Have they done anything to the interior? I thought the best appearance thing I ever did was to add the gunmetal carbon fiber look console. Is it a 6 speed? I've been very pleased with the MGW shifter. Have fun!
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Originally Posted by LDB
I had an 05 DSOM coupe before trading it for my CTSV. Loved the color, though the ad-man who thought it up was obviously geographically challenged. Last time I looked at the map, seemed to me that it should have been Daytona Sunrise Orange Metallic, not sunset.
roger on the sunrise part. they must have been drunk.
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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by LDB
I had an 05 DSOM coupe before trading it for my CTSV. Loved the color, though the ad-man who thought it up was obviously geographically challenged. Last time I looked at the map, seemed to me that it should have been Daytona Sunrise Orange Metallic, not sunset.
'scuse me, the sun doesn't shine 24 hours a day in Daytona - it does set in the west just as it does every where else!!!

Here it is going down with my '05 DSOM in the picture (that car is now owned by my B-in-law). This was taken about 5 years ago:





Here are the '05 Coupe and '06 Z06 before my B-in-law drove home in "his" '05:






Here's the Z06 with a Daytona sunset in the background:




Taken at my B-in-law's house in Virginia after the NCM VIR HPDE the end of June this year:




My helmet??? DSOM, of course!!!:




And below you can see a DSOM in action at Daytona!!!

Yeah, I love DSOM - but, hey, I do live in Daytona!!!

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Originally Posted by BEZ06
'scuse me, the sun doesn't shine 24 hours a day in Daytona - it does set in the west just as it does every where else!!!

Here it is going down with my '05 DSOM in the picture (that car is now owned by my B-in-law). This was taken about 5 years ago:
Obviously the sun sets on Daytona just like it does everywhere else. Also obviously, those sunsets are occasionally orange. But the imagery addressed by picking the name of a famous beach racing course would suggest sun over the water and racing beach, and with Daytona Beach on the east coast of Florida, the sun rises over the beach and sets inland. It’s a small point, but one that always amused me.
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Originally Posted by LDB
....But the imagery addressed by picking the name of a famous beach racing course would suggest sun over the water and racing beach, and with Daytona Beach on the east coast of Florida, the sun rises over the beach and sets inland. It’s a small point, but one that always amused me.
Hmmm....okay - I guess living here I just never thought of it that way. I've always watched the sun go down in the west, and I've seen an orange sky quite often during sunsets over the 15 years I've lived here.

But, I do know what you mean - like the closing scene in "The Green Berets" where The Duke is on a beach somewhere on the east coast of Vietnam, and the sun is setting in the east out over the South China Sea!!!! I flew out of Da Nang, and I know the sun sets over the hills inland to the west there also!!

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'05 DSM Orange Coupe
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Hmmm....okay - I guess living here I just never thought of it that way. I've always watched the sun go down in the west, and I've seen an orange sky quite often during sunsets over the 15 years I've lived here.

But, I do know what you mean - like the closing scene in "The Green Berets" where The Duke is on a beach somewhere on the east coast of Vietnam, and the sun is setting in the east out over the South China Sea!!!! I flew out of Da Nang, and I know the sun sets over the hills inland to the west there also!!

Bob
okay guys. we're changing the name to daytona sunshine orange metallic.
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Love the color. Too bad it was discontinued in 07. So it's AO for me.
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OK, back to the original question. I have a 06 DSOM vert Cashmere interior & top my cosmetic mods. Exterior painted to match: door handles, high mount stop lamp, & rear license plate holder. Interior: 2010 GM Hydrocarbon radio/console bezel, black gauge bezel, Lloyd mats, & trunk lid liner.
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