What's with all these "retro" corvettes

"S65" (granthp) 06/15/2016 at 20:48 • Filed to: None

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Please explain it to me

Sam > S65 06/15/2016 at 20:55

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Go look at prices on a good, resto-modded (these people want modern amenities) C1 or C2. Then you will understand.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:02

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Nostalgia is a terrible thing.

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:04

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That silver C2-styled one is gorgeous. The rest are abominations. So sayeth the man with the Corvette tattoo.

Sneaky Pete > Sam 06/15/2016 at 21:05

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These “conversions” or whatever you want to call them, cost 100k+ and look cheesy with the “modern” interior and the raked windshields...

Sneaky Pete > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 06/15/2016 at 21:06

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The windshield is all kinds of weird looking...

BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather > Sneaky Pete 06/15/2016 at 21:09

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I think that’s something they didn’t change on that one...

S65 > Sam 06/15/2016 at 21:12

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This one was $66,000. You could buy a new corvette for less.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:13

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Corvette owners are generally classless, have poor taste, and think stuff like that will be worth a lot of money someday when all they did is ruin a perfectly okay Corvette.

Sovereign, Purveyor of Coupes > Sneaky Pete 06/15/2016 at 21:17

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These are the same people who buy pt cruisers for the “retro” look, they just have more money.

S65 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/15/2016 at 21:20

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But this is ok right?

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:21

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Yes.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:24

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I'm not necessarily anti-custom Vettes, I've just always loathed the ones that try to make a C5 look like an older one. Especially the C1, those are the absolute worst.

dogisbadob > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:25

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There is nothing wrong with this.

S65 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/15/2016 at 21:28

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They wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t so gaudy.

S65 > dogisbadob 06/15/2016 at 21:31

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Please explain

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > S65 06/15/2016 at 21:45

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Yeah, but they’re meant to appeal to people who think this

is classy and understated. Airbrushed hood insulation, that's what we're talking about here.

S65 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/15/2016 at 21:47

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Ewww

RandomTask > S65 06/15/2016 at 22:33

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No. This is wrong, and bad. These abominations are badong.

Frank Grimes > S65 06/15/2016 at 23:05

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Blind people need cars too.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > S65 06/16/2016 at 00:02

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I’m guessing you saw this. It's the impala fins that really offend me. That silver on meant to look like a Stigray looks cool, weird but cool.

My retro Corvette post from a few weeks ago.

Eggplant > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/16/2016 at 03:18

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What are those cans in the back? The colouring suggests Farelca buffing compounds, but upon closer inspection, the design definitely is not a match.

JCAlan > BugEyedBimmer - back in the Saddle Dakota Leather 06/16/2016 at 07:43

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They need to do something with the mirrors, but otherwise agree. From that angle at least, it looks good.

Stapleface > S65 06/16/2016 at 08:29

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There’s no explaining. Most of them look awful. The retro designs just don’t work with the width and length of a C5, not to mention the windshield rake.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > S65 06/16/2016 at 08:30

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If it was a convertible, the ‘62 would ‘work’. The others just not so much.Either way, these do two things.

First is you can have cruiser car that can actually get serviced at normal places and has working heat and AC and antilock brakes and stuff.

Second, just about everybody with these classic corvettes does nothing with them except park them at shows and occasionally drive around with a ‘hey look at me’ look on their face. So for a $30,000 conversion you can bask in the ‘hey look at me’ instead of the $150,000+ that it requires to get an actual classic Corvette these days.

Drakkon- Most Glorious and Upright Person of Genius > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 06/16/2016 at 08:31

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Oh that hurts

IanZ - limited-slip indifferential > S65 06/16/2016 at 11:49

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That second one is...