View Poll Results: What Color 427 Vert do you have
Artic White
35
33.02%
Blade Silver Metallic
5
4.72%
Inferno Orange Metallic
3
2.83%
Black
18
16.98%
Velocity Yellow Tintcoat
4
3.77%
Cyber Gray Metallic
8
7.55%
Torch Red
9
8.49%
Crystal Red Metallic
11
10.38%
Supersonic Blue
1
0.94%
Night Race Blue
12
11.32%
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427 Convertible Registry, Color Poll, and Discussion
03-10-2014, 10:59 PM
#2003
Melting Slicks
Selfish, but we ARE different. Only 2552 (or so) like us... So, I know it might be a bit difficult or niche for the administrators, but our cars don't really fall into any other slot nicely.
Just checked out the C7 forum. Amazing how much hate and angst the 427 STILL causes with the "purists" with threads contemplating a C7 Z06 Vert and how it would "ruin" the model name, etc. We really are lucky Chevy bucked the crowd and built ours, even if for just one year. Brings a smile every time I see her. LOVE the lines of the vert, and actually prefer it, top up or down, to the coupe. I know, I am heretic...
This winter has been a tough one, but I have just HAD to bust the car out for a spin or two, road salt, sand, grime, and all. I LOVE taking off on cold tires / roads in this machine. Giving my nannies a workout!
Just checked out the C7 forum. Amazing how much hate and angst the 427 STILL causes with the "purists" with threads contemplating a C7 Z06 Vert and how it would "ruin" the model name, etc. We really are lucky Chevy bucked the crowd and built ours, even if for just one year. Brings a smile every time I see her. LOVE the lines of the vert, and actually prefer it, top up or down, to the coupe. I know, I am heretic...
This winter has been a tough one, but I have just HAD to bust the car out for a spin or two, road salt, sand, grime, and all. I LOVE taking off on cold tires / roads in this machine. Giving my nannies a workout!
Shift to 5th and just let off the pedal and coast on up behind a car in the hammer lane!
It's one mean machine! I love the look top up or top down & the cab is surprisingly quiet. It's just a great car and a lot of fun, right out of the box, stock!
03-11-2014, 12:54 AM
#2004
Instructor
Never too late, and Congrats!
I agree with you 100%!
As I was washing & waxing my 427 following the recent rains (I keep my car immaculate), I viewed the beautiful smooth lines, the wide body, fat tires, and those big beautiful round tail lights, and thought to myself, there is no way under the sun I would trade it in on a C7 Stingray or C7 Z06 Vert. I love the style and the LS7 motor and it's sound too much!
Like many here, I passed on the C7 and opted for the car that I was passionate about!
I agree with you 100%! As I was washing & waxing my 427 following the recent rains (I keep my car immaculate), I viewed the beautiful smooth lines, the wide body, fat tires, and those big beautiful round tail lights, and thought to myself, there is no way under the sun I would trade it in on a C7 Stingray or C7 Z06 Vert. I love the style and the LS7 motor and it's sound too much!
Like many here, I passed on the C7 and opted for the car that I was passionate about!
I too passed on the C7. I traded a beautiful triple black 06 for my 427 Vert. Love, love, love those round tail lights !!!!!
03-11-2014, 01:04 AM
#2005
Instructor
03-11-2014, 01:15 AM
#2007
Advanced
gets driven. I really am enjoying this 427 takes me back to 1967 when I
saw my first 427/435HP.
03-11-2014, 01:25 AM
#2009
Instructor
03-11-2014, 01:42 AM
#2010
Advanced
and I swap out my weekly driver every month or so.
The Porsche and Beetle are my wife's rides.
03-11-2014, 04:09 PM
#2011
Drifting
Unfortunately, my '66 and my wife's 427 convertible are still covered and waiting for the snow/salt/slop to disappear. 50° yesterday and low 40s today is making things look a little more like spring but the cars will look like this for a bit longer.
03-11-2014, 04:20 PM
#2012
Splash Guards
View of left side guard from rear to front. I'll take a little at a time off the trim line until it can rotate counter clockwise enough to fit around the front of the side skirt. I may have to take some off the left side also but this will allow the edge you see on the right side to come back flush against the inner fender. As it fits now, this edge is about 1/2 inch off the fender liner and hange dangerously close to the ourside edge of the tire when turning full left. The left edge has a rubber seal (removed here) to protect the paint.
In this view, the left edge is the inside edge and the surface facing up is the leading side that will catch all the debis.
Hope this photobucket thing works. My first shot at it.
03-11-2014, 04:21 PM
#2013
Melting Slicks
By the way, what CVO do you own?
03-11-2014, 04:28 PM
#2014
forgot
Now that I have photo sharing figured out:
03-11-2014, 04:38 PM
#2015
Burning Brakes
I like this idea............the 427's go on a 4/27 cruise. I see you are in CT....maybe see if a few NE 427's are game............anyone else from CT, RI, MA, or NH interested (just thinking ME and VT may be too long of a haul for you folks..............maybe another cruise in the summer to ME and or VT?). Did you post this great idea in the other 427 thread?
Not too far from most of New England, maybe get the place to give us part of the parking lot? Have lunch, and be on our way, for some more of those great miles...
03-11-2014, 06:14 PM
#2016
Drifting
Neither of those bikes is a CVO. The Harley on the left is an original '56 flh Hydra-Glide and the bike under the black cover is an '02 Low Rider while the little scoot way on the left is a '55 Cushman Eagle. If you look up on the wall on the right side of the garage there is a picture of my wife and I on the '56 pan.
03-11-2014, 07:08 PM
#2017
Safety Car
Those are the same ones Ecklers and RPI sells. They're nice too.
Did you do museum delivery or Experience? I did the Experience in 05 with my 02 Z. Great time, they treat you like family, and we had a blast.
If you've never done delivery, do the Experience. It's worth the $$.
Did you do museum delivery or Experience? I did the Experience in 05 with my 02 Z. Great time, they treat you like family, and we had a blast.
If you've never done delivery, do the Experience. It's worth the $$.
03-11-2014, 07:22 PM
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Here's where mine came from http://www.southerncarparts.com/corv...ds-p-4260.html
Now that I have photo sharing figured out:
Now that I have photo sharing figured out:
03-11-2014, 09:09 PM
#2019
Melting Slicks
Neither of those bikes is a CVO. The Harley on the left is an original '56 flh Hydra-Glide and the bike under the black cover is an '02 Low Rider while the little scoot way on the left is a '55 Cushman Eagle. If you look up on the wall on the right side of the garage there is a picture of my wife and I on the '56 pan.
I have a 2012 CVO Ultra, & the cover looks just like the one on your low rider.
03-12-2014, 11:06 AM
#2020
Those are the same ones Ecklers and RPI sells. They're nice too.
Did you do museum delivery or Experience? I did the Experience in 05 with my 02 Z. Great time, they treat you like family, and we had a blast.
If you've never done delivery, do the Experience. It's worth the $$.
Did you do museum delivery or Experience? I did the Experience in 05 with my 02 Z. Great time, they treat you like family, and we had a blast.
If you've never done delivery, do the Experience. It's worth the $$.
If I had it to do again, I'd have bought the option where they photograph your car being built and organize all that into a snazzy kind of scrapbook. That would have been the icing on the cake for a 60th birthday present!