Four-Door Vette (OOB)

[stitchdup]

2 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

This is why you should always make sure your brakes/spectacles are in good working order (delete as appropriate)

[Spottedlaurel]

4 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

Some much needed reference material..................

I know I've had 35+ years to get used to the concept of this thing, but on the basis of those 1:1 shots I don't reckon it's so bad.

[Snake45]

9 hours ago, Oldcarfan27 said:

At least it's complete in its execution, not a mish-mash of various parts, like this disaster....

I don't say this often, but: That is just sick and wrong. 

[unclescott58]

Looks photoshopped to me. 

 

Edited July 31, 2020 by unclescott58

[Bucky]

1 hour ago, unclescott58 said:

Looks photoshopped to me. 

 

Appears to be an actual screw-up.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0509-79279/1975-chevrolet-corvette/

[unclescott58]

8 hours ago, Bucky said:

Appears to be an actual screw-up.

https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0509-79279/1975-chevrolet-corvette/

The link seems to prove you right. Boy, is that a stinker. I don't get what they were thinking on that one. 

[Faust]

It looks like when light hits the dividing line between two dissimilar media and changes its angle. Except here, it's terrible. 

That is a total travesty, and how that back end is anything to do with a '75, I'll never know. 

If there was a kit of that, I would not build it. Oh wait, who the heck am I kidding. Of course I would, just to rub it in... just like the Ferrari Rainbow. At least its straight lines all line up.

Maybe he left the clay model he was working off of out in the rain?

[stitchdup]

oh wow, its built from 3 corvettes, a 75, 81 and an 82

[Brian Austin]

I think the problem was the use of unmodified doors for the front. To flow better new door skins would have to be fabricated that don't flare out.

 

And then new side glass would have to be formed if the roof had been redesigned to flow in a graceful line.

[Faust]

On 8/19/2020 at 9:52 PM, Brian Austin said:

I think the problem was the use of unmodified doors for the front. To flow better new door skins would have to be fabricated that don't flare out.

 

And then new side glass would have to be formed if the roof had been redesigned to flow in a graceful line.

That wasn't the only problem. 

I'm going to go with poor planning on the roof as a major failing, too. This thing makes the Corvette America look like a total thoroughbred!

[randyc]

Speaking of screwups, I saw a C4 or maybe C5 vette yesterday with a decal of some sort downt he middle of the rear window to try to emulate the split window look.   It was truly poorly done and horrible.   No back to the other screwups.  lol

[64Comet404]

32 minutes ago, randyc said:

Speaking of screwups, I saw a C4 or maybe C5 vette yesterday with a decal of some sort downt he middle of the rear window to try to emulate the split window look.   It was truly poorly done and horrible.   No back to the other screwups.  lol

I've seen fibreglass overlays for later 'Vettes to replicate the split window, they never look right. Why don't the owners just go all the way and add an extra pair of taillights while they're at it? 

[espo]

Can't be to bad, it did sell, but for how much ? The old saying " there is a bottom for every seat" and yes I cleaned it up a bit. 

[Mike999]

2 hours ago, randyc said:

Speaking of screwups, I saw a C4 or maybe C5 vette yesterday with a decal of some sort downt he middle of the rear window to try to emulate the split window look.   It was truly poorly done and horrible.   No back to the other screwups.  lol

I've posted about this masterpiece before, but for newer members:  when I was a kid, a local "buy here pay here" used-car lot had a really strange contraption sitting on the "back 40."  With all the other hard-to-sell cars.

It was a '62 Corvette with the split-window roof of a '63 hardtop attached.  It looked like a 1:1 scale model kit, glued together by a kid with no hand-eye co-ordination.  The thing had been re-painted (badly) a bright red.  That was not a good idea, because chunks of white filler were exposed and falling off where the roof had been attached.  I only hoped that the poor '63 had been totaled in a crash, and the builder didn't destroy 2 good cars to create that monstrosity.