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Thursday, July 28, 2005

C5 Corvette '53 Commemorative Edition




Recycled Fug.

In November 2001, as the Corvette world began preparing for Golden Anniversary celebrations, Magna Steyr Engineering of Ontario, Canada, unveiled its Commemorative Edition Corvette at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. It was ugly.

Advanced Automotive Technologies in Rochester Hills, Michigan, believed in the concept enough to buy the rights to produce the "Commemorative Edition Corvette" conversion. It's still ugly.

For only around $30,000 USD on top of the price of the donor Corvette (hardtop only), you can have a C5 Corvette that looks like a '53 edition stretched like taffy.

http://www.aatcars.com/aat_commem/commem.htm

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, it sure gets the 1953 theme across! It would probably sell quite well for a husband who wanted a C5 and a wife who really wanted a '53 BlueFlame Six. Buuuuutttt... for $30,000 EXTRA dollarinis, I think I'd rather have a nice piece of real estate and a garage to park the C5 in. But that's just me. I'm weird like that.