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Was the Corvette not good enough as it was?

 

No, it wasn't. It was meant to compete with the influx of overseas sportscars (why it only had a V6 in its first year), and it sucked at it. The stingrays handled almost as shittily as the muscle cars.... because they were muscle cars. Put a 427 on one end of a slab of fiberglass and see what happens. A "world class sports car", it was not.

 

The wheels are completely wrong, and it does indeed sit too high. But the styling is spot on fore a mid-engine 60's supercar.

The shape had to change to get the engine/tranny in the back.

 

Some one photoshop this a bit lower with some period-accurate wheels:

http://images8.ecarlist.com/photos/1406_431861/640/02.jpg

 

Like this guys stance and wheels:

http://www.the904store.com/904-6.jpg

That's who the mid-engine Vette would have been competing against.

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can't put my finger on it but there is something about it that doesn't look right.

 

+1

 

I'm all for vents and intakes... And I can see how the proportioning was changed.. But it just doesn't come together. I think it ran off a cliff straight into the Uncanny Valley of cars.

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