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    n2a 789

    Not at all sure why info on the thing was sent to me, it's the most wrong-headed custom on a C6 to date.
    My guess is Hemmings is selling it's mailing list and they screwed up my demographic profile. Ugly in ways that defy language.
    The answer to a question no one could possibly have asked while sober. That there is a market for anything remotely like this is frightening.
    Plus, a perfectly good Corvette was sacrificed. Enjoy.
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    I can actually almost see why they built this. Details are nice but overall look is wrong, with a different colour selection I think I actually might like it.
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    I actually like the squashed front end.
    The '57/'59 dichotomy is horribly wrong and they miss out on many of the critical proportions (hood length, trunk size, and windshield angle/size). Also the wheels, mirrors, and pathetic rubber "Dagmars" are quite shitty.
    So, as long as I am looking head-on at it and the mirrors are obscured and a trick-of-light makes it look like the windshield is differently-shaped and chrome-lined it looks good.
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    The windshield doesn't seem to fit well with it, but other than that... i kind of like it... >.>
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    apparently they wanted to combine the 1958 Packard front with the 1959 Chevy taillight section. Why?
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    Its really not that bad when you stare at it long enough, Im acutally beginning to like it.
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    Thank you Hellcat and Henk for seeing the same pile I do... you other guys, I don't know. Styling '57, '58, '59 Chevy excesses in one package isn't good. Hell, some of those cues were awful then and still questionable. Exaggerating some of those styling cues is even worse, even if trying for an over-the-top retromobile. To each his own, I guess.

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    I just don't get why they built the 789. (or why they sent the crap to me!) I can imagine exactly the clientel that buys them: stereotypical Vegas/SEMA/BJ Auction denizen, with free passes to the titty bar in his pocket and smelling of Chinese buffet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by csl177 View Post
    Hell, some of those cues were awful then and still questionable.
    I agree with everything you said except this. I think the original version of a lot of those old chevy's are still some of the prettiest cars in the world. But, as you said, to each his own.
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    Jay Leno reviewed this car on his website a while ago, he quite liked it, but I don't.

    He talked to the creator too.

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    The car looks lumpy at the A-pillar- too much so to make it look right.

    Jay Leno's weird in that he likes anything that's Corvette, even if it's super weird. I mean, he praises it for its worksmanship, but it's styled really weirdly.
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    I don't care for the thing at all. Part of that may be because I really don't care for the '59 Chevy rear end. It always struck me as pointless and strange rather than evocation of something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roosterjuicer View Post
    I agree with everything you said except this. I think the original version of a lot of those old chevy's are still some of the prettiest cars in the world. But, as you said, to each his own.
    The horizontal fins of the '59 coupled to the '58 waist is the problem. Both were excessive in the original. I am a fan of Chevrolet's styling on the '55-'57s, it's timeless Americana. Had they designed the car with '55-57-58 details it might've worked for me.
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    I don't care for the thing at all. Part of that may be because I really don't care for the '59 Chevy rear end. It always struck me as pointless and strange rather than evocation of something.
    Exactly. How they've treated the front isn't as bad as the inclusion of those fins. The resulting mash-up doesn't really work.
    And like I said, their other products are pretty tasty.
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    I thought I really liked their other creation, the Anteros...after a while, I came back to my senses, but it's no as bas as this one.
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    Very troubling look. Car looks happy in front and angry behind. The car messes with my emotions. I don't know what to feel about it.

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