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Offline bmwrd0

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Pure Art
« on: March 25, 2020, 07:39:45 PM »
This article in Super Chevy shows the original body molds for the first Corvette. Simply stunning.
http://www.superchevy.com/features/1905-mahogany-works-art-are-body-dies-for-1953-corvettes
this is what we did before CAD.
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Offline muddy

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2020, 08:04:32 PM »
Back when car actually had the amount of engineering and quality in them to be worth what today's shit boxes are fetching

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2020, 08:08:01 PM »
Imagine what a collector would pay to have that in their man cave.
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Offline Lookin4_67GalaxieConv

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2020, 08:14:22 PM »
That is too cool!
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Offline fatfillup

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2020, 08:39:08 PM »
Stunning
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Offline goodfellow

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2020, 08:39:59 PM »
That is so cool! Thanks for posting; it's a good read.
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Offline pep

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2020, 10:25:05 PM »
Anyone catch the size of the tag relief in the trunk deck.......... UK ?

Interesting for sure
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Offline john k

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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2020, 10:53:20 PM »
When the Corvette came out, the fiberglass body was much ballyhooed, but, lots of folks believed it could only be built in white.  The vettes were white of course.
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Re: Pure Art
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2020, 11:49:21 AM »
Sounds about right with enamel being the paint of the day in the 50's. Never thought of that before, good one.
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