Trailer 4 Creation
Burning Brakes
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From: St. Jacob Illinois
Looking at that illustration, I bet it's the back of the car with the hatch closed, and no glass installed.
Look at the freeze frame a few posts up, then the illustration from the manual. A close hatch you able to see something sitting inside due to no glass installed.
Thats my official opinion.
Look at the freeze frame a few posts up, then the illustration from the manual. A close hatch you able to see something sitting inside due to no glass installed.
Thats my official opinion.
Le Mans Master
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From: Oakland, CA
Even if they do have a specific look, is it so specific that the tiny highlighted pixels in the Teaser 4 cap must only be that and therefore the material must be aluminum?
I don't do hightech metal fabrication. Do you? I need more evidence or an expert opinion. No offense, but you have not convinced me.
.Jinx
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While it looks like the front end to me, upon seeing the render below, it makes me think again. The body lines for the front clip do not match up. In the picture above, shouldn't we be able to see the cutout on the fender for the headlight? In the renderings, the headlights come way up the fender, I am not seeing that in the above picture. Anybody catch what I am saying? Or am I way off base here? I usually rely on you guys to decipher all this for me, while I sit back and enjoy the benefits of your labor.
Le Mans Master
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St. Jude Donor '14
While it looks like the front end to me, upon seeing the render below, it makes me think again. The body lines for the front clip do not match up. In the picture above, shouldn't we be able to see the cutout on the fender for the headlight? In the renderings, the headlights come way up the fender, I am not seeing that in the above picture. Anybody catch what I am saying? Or am I way off base here? I usually rely on you guys to decipher all this for me, while I sit back and enjoy the benefits of your labor.
Burning Brakes
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From: St. Jacob Illinois
and with this photo here you can tell that it could match up as far as how much flat body panel space there is in the photo above and this one
http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-1280x782.jpg
Possibly a hood with no vents or engine, but i just don't know about those dropoffs and angle of the body/slope or whatever
http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-1280x782.jpg
Possibly a hood with no vents or engine, but i just don't know about those dropoffs and angle of the body/slope or whatever
Race Director
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What in the video makes it sound as though the welds in the video have a specific look to them? I do not get that.
Even if they do have a specific look, is it so specific that the tiny highlighted pixels in the Teaser 4 cap must only be that and therefore the material must be aluminum?
I don't do hightech metal fabrication. Do you? I need more evidence or an expert opinion. No offense, but you have not convinced me.
.Jinx
Even if they do have a specific look, is it so specific that the tiny highlighted pixels in the Teaser 4 cap must only be that and therefore the material must be aluminum?
I don't do hightech metal fabrication. Do you? I need more evidence or an expert opinion. No offense, but you have not convinced me.
.Jinx
Cruising
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Looking at the upper left hand corner of the first picture, it looks like an opening for the hood vent insert. On the right side of the picture in front of the gentleman in the white t-shirt, is where the headlight should go. It's going to be a very nice looking car! 
Last edited by DCQT; Jan 10, 2013 at 05:09 PM.
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Intermediate
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From: WA
and with this photo here you can tell that it could match up as far as how much flat body panel space there is in the photo above and this one
http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-1280x782.jpg
Possibly a hood with no vents or engine, but i just don't know about those dropoffs and angle of the body/slope or whatever
http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-1280x782.jpg
Possibly a hood with no vents or engine, but i just don't know about those dropoffs and angle of the body/slope or whatever
I agree, it looks to be way to large of an area to be the rear fender. But shouldn't we be able to see the cutout for the headlight in the fender?
Safety Car
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From: Northeast MA & Mad Beach FL
Here's some pictures of what I think after finding the Picture of the Rear of a depicted C7. ( which until now I'd never seen before )
And IMO Contrary to most of the pictures of the rear hatch/side windows etc. in the 1st Picture of a Red C7... ( which I wasn't excited over ) ..
the 3rd picture of the rear end view ( hatch and side windows ) is GREAT IMO.
And Camaro tail lights or not which in that 3rd picture to me look Great ... The C7 is going to be a HIT
Now I want one
Thoughts and Opinions
And IMO Contrary to most of the pictures of the rear hatch/side windows etc. in the 1st Picture of a Red C7... ( which I wasn't excited over ) ..
the 3rd picture of the rear end view ( hatch and side windows ) is GREAT IMO.
And Camaro tail lights or not which in that 3rd picture to me look Great ... The C7 is going to be a HIT
Now I want one
Thoughts and Opinions
Melting Slicks
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From: Cali for ya Republic
While it looks like the front end to me, upon seeing the render below, it makes me think again. The body lines for the front clip do not match up. In the picture above, shouldn't we be able to see the cutout on the fender for the headlight? In the renderings, the headlights come way up the fender, I am not seeing that in the above picture. Anybody catch what I am saying? Or am I way off base here? I usually rely on you guys to decipher all this for me, while I sit back and enjoy the benefits of your labor.
Melting Slicks
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that is true. However, the chassis of the c6 was designed as a steel structure then made out of AL for the Z cars. If it were origonally engineered out of AL as we believe the C7 to be, it certainly would have had different charicteristics than a warmed over steel design. That being said, I would guess the C7 frame to be lighter and more rigid than the C6 z care due to that fact.
While I agree that a frame specifically designed for aluminum will be better, the C6Z cars are fixed roof structure and not an open top like the C7. The fixed roof played a big role in increasing rigidity and was able to make it stiffer and lighter than the steel framed cars. Downside was you couldn't take off the roof (if that was important to you). It is very possible that despite an older design, the closed roof structure still makes the older frames more rigid than the other one.
Playing devil's advocate here, you could say there may be additional weight and material (ex: increased thickness) required to make an aluminum frame stiff enough without the closed roof (still lighter than the older steel frame though) and it still may not have the same rigidity as the C6 closed roof setup or older steel frames.
A C7 with a fixed roof would be the bee's knees though.
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Drifting
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From: Hernando MS
While it looks like the front end to me, upon seeing the render below, it makes me think again. The body lines for the front clip do not match up. In the picture above, shouldn't we be able to see the cutout on the fender for the headlight? In the renderings, the headlights come way up the fender, I am not seeing that in the above picture. Anybody catch what I am saying? Or am I way off base here? I usually rely on you guys to decipher all this for me, while I sit back and enjoy the benefits of your labor.
Last edited by MikeG37; Jan 10, 2013 at 06:49 PM. Reason: Pic added
Melting Slicks
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From: lisbon ,md,usa
I wonder if this is the hood/FR fender.. and the fender we're seeing is only a temporary mock up placed on the car for hood installation and alignment, and removed after the hood install. It may be cut off around the point where the headlights begin to have clear access to the hood hinge. The fender does have writing on it, and we know these cars shown being built are basically "test runs" for the plant. On one of the frames you can see BG54 11-19, I assume this means Bolling Green, 54th chassis, November 19th.
Le Mans Master
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Team Owner
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08,'12-'13
I wonder if this is the hood/FR fender.. and the fender we're seeing is only a temporary mock up placed on the car for hood installation and alignment, and removed after the hood install. It may be cut off around the point where the headlights begin to have clear access to the hood hinge. The fender does have writing on it, and we know these cars shown being built are basically "test runs" for the plant. On one of the frames you can see BG54 11-19, I assume this means Bolling Green, 54th chassis, November 19th.
I knew they were building them there !
And some people were doubting that
Drifting
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From: Hernando MS
Chassis #102?
Race Director
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Well, if anyone took a BG tour last year you could see a large part of the plant blocked off with plywood. They were obviously doing something behind those walls they didn't want anyone to see.
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Team Owner
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08,'12-'13
Was a large area. So makes sense that they had the room back there to pull that off. FRAME assembly them back to the two other lines. BOdy and rolling suspension
Le Mans Master
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From: Oakland, CA
If somebody has spotted more conclusive evidence, please speak up. It'd be nice to say Corvette Forum nailed another tidbit early.
Still, BlueOx, the aluminum spotwelding video is another good find.
But if it's not aluminum, it could still be exotic and lightweight. What if it's nan- I mean high-strength steel? Perhaps a little titanium? Lots of magnesium? Speculation, so tasty.