Brown 2017 C7?
Apr 19, 2016 | 05:47 PM
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Brown 2017 C7?
Apr 19, 2016 | 05:57 PM
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Sure looks like the red in the Corvette flag has turned brown too. Either a reflection (if this is a real brown) or a photoshop job.
Apr 19, 2016 | 05:59 PM
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Everything old is new again.
Back around 1970, Brown was the hottest color going... Corvettes, Porsches, Mercedes, etc...
Now, of course most of the surviving cars have been re-painted "resale" red, or silver... but tastes change
Apr 19, 2016 | 06:06 PM
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When I seen the title my thought was ugh, but that looks better than I thought it would.
Apr 19, 2016 | 06:08 PM
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Quote:
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graj6
Sure looks like the red in the Corvette flag has turned brown too. Either a reflection (if this is a real brown) or a photoshop job.
Good point...
Apr 19, 2016 | 06:08 PM
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We will know for certain soon.
Apr 19, 2016 | 06:14 PM
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Sure looks like the red in the Corvette flag has turned brown too.
The yellow side marker did not change color. Kalahari interior same color.
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Apr 19, 2016 | 06:16 PM
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The yellow side marker did not change color.
I'm not saying it is definitely a photoshopped Vette, but it might be like in the other thread. Where they took care of the big things, but it was a DSOM / Red Vette where he'd tried to change all of the red/DSOM to a brown hue. That affects the red (with reflections) on the flag much more than the side markers which are yellow.
Let's see if it's the real deal or another of those fakes. Where did you get the pictures OP?
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Apr 19, 2016 | 06:20 PM
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Let's see if it's the real deal or another of those fakes. Where did you get the pictures OP?
Got them off one of the guys in my local Corvette Club. I have no idea if they are real. They carry Corvette Conti's logo. Maybe he could chime in?
Apr 19, 2016 | 06:38 PM
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It also has the polished aluminum wheels that are part of the Spice Red package.
Apr 19, 2016 | 07:06 PM
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It's not bad if it's for real. Personally, I wouldn't buy one but I'm sure some will like it. Is it called "Spice Brown"?
Apr 19, 2016 | 07:10 PM
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It has brown tail lights also. I bet this is just a poorly-white-balanced photo of Long Beach Red.
Apr 19, 2016 | 07:21 PM
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Color corrected:
Tough to say definitively, but I think this is poorly-lit/photographed Long Beach Red. We're looking on a computer screen at a video still taken by a camera pointed at a television screen. There's a lot of opportunity for the color to get misrepresented along that chain of custody.
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Apr 19, 2016 | 07:24 PM
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The more I hear about a possible Brown/Bronze C7 I am wondering if there will be the return of a lighter tan interior option?
Apr 19, 2016 | 07:27 PM
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Looks like a color balance issue with the digital camera shooting an LCD TV screen in room light. I'm a photographer and I see this all the time.
Apr 19, 2016 | 08:38 PM
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Apr 19, 2016 | 08:50 PM
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get your damn tv calibrated, will ya????
Apr 19, 2016 | 10:42 PM
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Everything old is new again.
Back around 1970, Brown was the hottest color going... Corvettes, Porsches, Mercedes, etc...
Now, of course most of the surviving cars have been re-painted "resale" red, or silver... but tastes change
My brown 1974.
Apr 19, 2016 | 11:08 PM
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I had a brown '88 Sedan DeVille.....what a great car that was, tan cloth interior, FWD, Northstar V8, drove like a dream and had very low kms. The metallic brown looked very nice.
Apr 19, 2016 | 11:19 PM
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Quote:
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Sure looks like the red in the Corvette flag has turned brown too. Either a reflection (if this is a real brown) or a photoshop job.
Good call!