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Old 03-26-2013, 08:44 PM
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Gawd, I hope not.
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Old 03-26-2013, 08:49 PM
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Yes - for the 2028 Model year . . . .

I have a friend who knows a salesman at the Chevy Dealer who talked to a guy at the factory about it - really
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GM had one - Caddy LXR and it weighed two tons......
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Old 03-26-2013, 09:19 PM
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GM had one - Caddy LXR and it weighed two tons......


Now, Now . . . . it was only 1.82 tons
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Originally Posted by BlueOx
Gawd, I hope not.
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Didn't this subject get beat to death about two weeks ago ?
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Old 03-26-2013, 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeyTX
Didn't this subject get beat to death about two weeks ago ?

Apparently it was only beaten to 'near death'
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Originally Posted by MikeyTX
Didn't this subject get beat to death about two weeks ago ?
Did it? I wouldn't know as I don't live on the C7 forum 24/7 like some of you guys.

And if it did why would you enter the thread? Just to be a troll?
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Old 03-26-2013, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by vettelover69
Did it? I wouldn't know as I don't live on the C7 forum 24/7 like some of you guys.

And if it did why would you enter the thread? Just to be a troll?
Last I checked, this is an open forum. Thus, I have the right to post to any thread.
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Old 03-26-2013, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeyTX
Last I checked, this is an open forum. Thus, I have the right to post to any thread.
That's right genius you do. And so do I.
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I expect to see it late production just like the 427 vert. If you look at how the hatch opens to take the soft top it works just like the other hart top Verts. It would have been easter to just hinge it like the C6

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Originally Posted by MikeyTX
Didn't this subject get beat to death about two weeks ago ?
Yes, but it's kinda like tail lights, auto trans, all wheel drive, stingray emblems, tires, etc. It just rolls off the keyboard so easily....that it's unavoidable for some to write about and ask.

I hope they don't make a folding metal roof.....some would say.
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Actually GM has done a retract already...



Maybe not a on a vette... but not impossible...

Esp when you consider the new Miata's that have retracts....and the Miata's retract actually takes less room to store that its soft top sibling...

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