I like this a lot more than I probably should...

"Jim Spanfeller" (awesomeaustinv) 08/06/2020 at 00:04 • Filed to: vette

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My initial reaction was that I need eye bleach, but the more I look at it... I likey. I think it kinda fails a bit at what it was going for but in such a way that it looks not half ba-

Okay, maybe not so much from the back.... man that is one thicc ‘Vette... So much so that I didn’t even notice the SCISSOR DOORS until now...

Man, I feel like such a boomer right now...

lone_liberal > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 00:10

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I get what they were going for but the proportions are all wrong with the hood way too long . And the doors are the worst.

sony1492 > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 00:11

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Jim Spanfeller > sony1492 08/06/2020 at 00:12

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Noooo...

404 - User No Longer Available > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 00:13

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GM almost built their own on the Solstice platform.

https://www.netcarshow.com/chevrolet/2004-nomad_concept/

Jim Spanfeller > lone_liberal 08/06/2020 at 00:14

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I think if you ignore what it’s trying to be, the proportions look okay until you get to the back. Not nearly enough rear window to go with the, er, car butt.

Jim Spanfeller > 404 - User No Longer Available 08/06/2020 at 00:16

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That car looks like it just saw a ghost...

lone_liberal > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 00:19

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It’s hard to ignore, though, because I know what a C1 Corvette looks like. It’s like they hit the Corvette uncanny valley. Maybe that’s why I don’t mind the back as much as you do. It really doesn’t resemble the Nomad back that closely so I can go with it.

Jim Spanfeller > lone_liberal 08/06/2020 at 00:23

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Weird... It’s the exact opposite for me. But I totally get what you mean about the Corvette uncanny valley. The Nomad is definitely an improvement over the regular ones though...

[shudders]

lone_liberal > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 00:46

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Agree on that one. Wow.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > lone_liberal 08/06/2020 at 01:21

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What's this one?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 01:23

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L OLNOPE

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > 404 - User No Longer Available 08/06/2020 at 01:23

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Not with 21-inch wheels.

lone_liberal > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/06/2020 at 01:28

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That’s the original 1954 Nomad show car.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2015/08/27/pontiac-based-nomad-recalls-1954-motorama-dream-car

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > sony1492 08/06/2020 at 01:42

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Packing it with salt & hosing it down doesn’t seem unwarranted.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 03:17

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ew!

Sovande > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 06:21

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I'd get two. One to shit on and one to cover it up with. 

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 06:46

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You say it’s thicc but its the same as this

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > lone_liberal 08/06/2020 at 08:35

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I never thought the nomad was very interesting. But that's a pretty car right there.

Jim Spanfeller > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/06/2020 at 10:05

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True. That’s the reason I never liked Corvettes as a kid, the rear end looks like somebody chopped off the rest of the streamlined body. It’s like the designer got lazy at that point and just went “make it a right angle with some circles”. It looks like they let a 3 year-old design the rear.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 10:36

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Ya, I can see that

Jim Spanfeller > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/06/2020 at 11:36

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What it needs is a rear end more like this:

Corvette purists would want my head, but I want a Corvette S peedtail!

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 11:46

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That would be a pain to autocross to be honest....

404 - User No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/06/2020 at 12:20

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18s. The Kappa platform is fairly tiny, even 45 profile looks like rubber bands.

Jim Spanfeller > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/06/2020 at 12:51

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Maybe it’s a little on the long side... the Corvette’s speedtail could be a tad shorter. Mostly I just think it needs to slope downwards more in the back and not have such a tall, abrupt, brick-like butt. It doesn’t work with the rest of the styling, it needs to be more streamlined.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > Jim Spanfeller 08/06/2020 at 13:44

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I know why they did it like that, the boot  is ginourmous for its class...and its really helpful to pack in lumber, jack, jack stands, water sprayer and misc stuff when I go to autox somewhere far away. So if you replace with a long tail, it'll become less practical...

Jim Spanfeller > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/06/2020 at 14:19

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I’m sure they did it so that you can fit golf clubs in there. But a long tail would look soooooo much better... Also, if they had just made the C5 mid-engined, they still could’ve made room for golf clubs in the front...

Also, we need to appreciate that the mid-engine C5 Co rvette concept car had very similar styling in the front but with a 10x better-looking rear end:

This, to me, is what the C5 was meant to look like all along.