Rusty Nail
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- Rusty
- Truck Year
- 1977
- Truck Model
- C20
- Engine Size
- 350sbc
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Lol.
Burn!
No electric says the Redneck! The C8 is not a corvette, it's some European cross breed.
The C7 is phenomenal, just improve upon it. I cant afford one but I have ridden in and still crane my neck for them.
The brightest minds at Chevrolet say they have taken that platform as far as is feasible for them to produce and as you say the C7 is a phenomenal car especially the Z versions. Just because the C8 is mid- engine does not make it a European cross breed. GM has been producing mid engine experimental vehicles going back to the 60’s with the CERV1. Only now have they developed the technology and processes to build a world class mid engine sports car with an entry price of under $60.000. That is major achievement in itself and actually shocked the hell out of me. A loaded up top of the line pickup exceeds that now. Only time will tell if the C8 is a sales succes but my thoughts are they have hit a home run. Not for everyone, I get that and there are plenty of front engine Corvettes to satisfy the demand for the foreseeable future. I’ll be keeping my C5 for a good long time yet as $60k is out of my wheelhouse but down the road, you never know.
I have another obsession with Chevrolet’s late Corvairs. Particularly mid mounted V8 conversions. But the Corvair guys are drooling over the thought of a salvage C8 drivetrain to slide under a late model Corvair body. Someone will do it, just a matter of time.
True, someone will find a ditch, tree, back of another car before too long.
I swapped out the camaro's in the driveway. When I got in the SS and fired it up after 2 weeks of sitting while I drove the new one. I instantly missed driving it. Lol.
The new V6 is nice and tight and smooth but, it doesn't have the sound and feel if the SS. That's why I swapped them. I'm driving the SS this weekend.
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The two platforms feel so different to me when I drive one then the other.
Have you noticed the same?