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07-20-2011, 12:09 PM
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C5 Spy History
Above - January, 1995 - The first C5 picture appeared in print (Automotive News)
Above - Automotive News - October 28, 1996 - Along with sister Crain Communications publication AutoWeek, AN showed the first public pix of an undisguised C5.
Above - The C5 was introduced as a 1997 model (coupe only) in March, 1997
C6 Spy History
Above - April 28, 03 Jim Dunne scored the first C6 spy shots and AutoWeek published them.
Above - November 16, 2003 - One of two pix caught during a GM publicity photo shoot by Benjamin Kopf IV of San Francisco and contributed to CorvetteForum.com. He gets the BIG prize for the first shots of the final version!
Above - On Sunday evening, January 4, 2004 at 7:00 pm, the 2005 Corvette was officially announced to the world.
C7 Spy Lead
Well, if you do the math, the C5 was caught over two years before introduction, but the C6 was only caught about 8 months before intro. Conclusion? GM is getting a whole lot better at hiding these things, particularly when the change is not radical. The C7 spy shot lead may be a lot shorter than 8 months. Whadda ya think?
David
Info above from my web site.
Above - January, 1995 - The first C5 picture appeared in print (Automotive News)
Above - Automotive News - October 28, 1996 - Along with sister Crain Communications publication AutoWeek, AN showed the first public pix of an undisguised C5.
Above - The C5 was introduced as a 1997 model (coupe only) in March, 1997
C6 Spy History
Above - April 28, 03 Jim Dunne scored the first C6 spy shots and AutoWeek published them.
Above - November 16, 2003 - One of two pix caught during a GM publicity photo shoot by Benjamin Kopf IV of San Francisco and contributed to CorvetteForum.com. He gets the BIG prize for the first shots of the final version!
Above - On Sunday evening, January 4, 2004 at 7:00 pm, the 2005 Corvette was officially announced to the world.
C7 Spy Lead
Well, if you do the math, the C5 was caught over two years before introduction, but the C6 was only caught about 8 months before intro. Conclusion? GM is getting a whole lot better at hiding these things, particularly when the change is not radical. The C7 spy shot lead may be a lot shorter than 8 months. Whadda ya think?
David
Info above from my web site.
