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Long Beach Red with Spice Red interior. anyone have
Wife wants a convertible in LBR, but we live in an area where there are few vettes at the dealers.
Before we order, we'd like to see one with the spice red interior. since that isn't likely to happen, maybe we can draw on your opinions. Does anyone have one (pictures) and what do you think.
she;s worried that it might clash. We'd probably get the black top, so it is just the interior that she is concerned about.
Wife wants a convertible in LBR, but we live in an area where there are few vettes at the dealers.
Before we order, we'd like to see one with the spice red interior. since that isn't likely to happen, maybe we can draw on your opinions. Does anyone have one (pictures) and what do you think.
she;s worried that it might clash. We'd probably get the black top, so it is just the interior that she is concerned about.
The "clash" is the Red calipers with the LBR (IMO).
^^^ ^^^ I have a customer who ordered a new Z06 in Long Beach Red. Even though Z06s come standard with red calipers, I recommended going with black ones because of that. He agreed and the car looked great.
The "clash" is the Red calipers with the LBR (IMO).
The '17 Coupe I referenced in post #3 above has the package where the red calipers match the vehicle LBR paint.
SPICE RED DESIGN PACKAGE includes (755) Spice Red full-color instrument panel, doors and seats (Also includes (Q8K) Grand Sport machined aluminum, 19" front and 20" rear wheels and (J6K) Dark Red calipers. Available with exterior color (G1E) Long Beach Red Metallic. Available with exterior color (G8G) Arctic White or (GAN) Blade Silver Metallic and requires (EFX) Shark Gray-painted exterior vents. Available with exterior color (G7Q) Watkins Glen Gray Metallic and requires (EFY) body-color painted exterior vents.) (ZLE)
The '17 Coupe I referenced in post #3 above has the package where the red calipers match the vehicle LBR paint.
SPICE RED DESIGN PACKAGE includes (755) Spice Red full-color instrument panel, doors and seats (Also includes (Q8K) Grand Sport machined aluminum, 19" front and 20" rear wheels and (J6K) Dark Red calipers. Available with exterior color (G1E) Long Beach Red Metallic. Available with exterior color (G8G) Arctic White or (GAN) Blade Silver Metallic and requires (EFX) Shark Gray-painted exterior vents. Available with exterior color (G7Q) Watkins Glen Gray Metallic and requires (EFY) body-color painted exterior vents.) (ZLE)
If you open the link and look at all of the pictures, you will find this one. This is not LBR;
I can only go by what these close up pics of the DARK RED Calipers listed on the Window Sticker of that same '17 C7 pictured above. Why they show lighter in that one picture? If you go to the Chevy build site, there are two different color red calipers listed for LBR C7's. But you are probably right that those dark red calipers are not LBR.
P.S. I'll be at that Chevy Dealer tomorrow so I'll take better pictures of those dark red calipers to 'shed light' on this discrepancy, if one. Then post to this thread.
My LBR has Black calipers.
At first, I didn't like 'em because they don't really stand out.
However, I have come to see how they blend in with the other pieces of black on the exterior of the car.
Still, I wonder if Silver would have been better....
For the record, the color of the dark red calipers that GM matches up with the Spice Red Package is called "Addicted Red". Long Beach Red is the exterior paint color, not the caliper color. The Addicted Red calipers have different GM part numbers than the standard red calipers. The give away is that the Addicted Red or dark red calipers have the white Corvette and/or Brembo lettering, depending if you have the Carbon Ceramic brakes, and the OEM standard red calipers have the black lettering.
Personally, I really like the Spice Red interior, however I like it least matched up with the Long Beach Red exterior. I think it looks much better matched up with Arctic White or Blade Silver where there is a distinct contrast vs. the blended red on red.
For the record, the color of the dark red calipers that GM matches up with the Spice Red Package is called "Addicted Red". Long Beach Red is the exterior paint color, not the caliper color. The Addicted Red calipers have different GM part numbers than the standard red calipers. The give away is that the Addicted Red or dark red calipers have the white Corvette and/or Brembo lettering, depending if you have the Carbon Ceramic brakes, and the OEM standard red calipers have the black lettering.
Personally, I really like the Spice Red interior, however I like it least matched up with the Long Beach Red exterior. I think it looks much better matched up with Arctic White or Blade Silver where there is a distinct contrast vs. the blended red on red.
For the record, the color of the dark red calipers that GM matches up with the Spice Red Package is called "Addicted Red". Long Beach Red is the exterior paint color, not the caliper color. The Addicted Red calipers have different GM part numbers than the standard red calipers. The give away is that the Addicted Red or dark red calipers have the white Corvette and/or Brembo lettering, depending if you have the Carbon Ceramic brakes, and the OEM standard red calipers have the black lettering.
Good to know, I wasn't aware of the "Addicted Red" calipers. I believe those would go well with LBR.
07-18-2017, 12:12 PM
Long Beach Red with Spice Red interior. anyone have
^^^ ^^^ I have a customer who ordered a new Z06 in Long Beach Red. Even though Z06s come standard with red calipers, I recommended going with black ones because of that. He agreed and the car looked great.
