I just saw something that looked like a 2003 Corvette cross bred with a 1950's Cadillac. It looked wider than a vette, with fixed downward sloping headlights, and it had fins in the back with little ball tail lights up high.

I know the new vette is supposed to have fixed lights...but this thing was just too crazy looking to be a production vette. Anyone have any idea what the hell this thing is?

 

chrysler crossfire


Edit: no fins so this must not be it

 

Sounds like something custom. Was it a modern looking design?

 

No this thing was crazy looking. I thought at first it was a vette with some weird kit but the front headlights were fixed and the whole front end was built around them... no way it was a kit. It had fins like this but 'modern looking', if its possible to have modern looking 50's fins...

 

you saw a common kit-car. you can buy all of the body panels that replace the stock panels for any C5 vette!! its not a chevy-endorsed product but it is a direct fit and a direct match. im not sure what the name of the site is or where you can see pictures but i know for a fact that ive seen this as well, at a car show, and in magazines and online. its quite expensive from what i understand as well.

 

its meant to look like a 50's style vette. in the same respect as the new thunderbird i suppose.

 

Yeah very modern looking, looked brand new. It was not a classic or anything...

 

Wow thats nuts...they can swap out the headlights with a kit? Thanks for the info this has been buggin me...

I was thinking it looked a lot like the new thunderbirds, modern but retro

 

Maybe this:

 

haha..this is fun..and cute..
where do u find this

 

was it a C5 w/ a 50's looking front? i've seen a picture of one before. it was done by a conversion company. i think they're pretty rare and were really expensive.

 

You sure like the word 'cute' don't ya Type S? My element is cute, this car is cute. Do ya think I'm cute too? :ghey:

















just messing with ya.

 

yeah and a 50's rear too.

 

This is probably not the kit you saw but it's an example of what's available.

http://www.exoticrebodies.com/

Edit: found it - http://www.vetteweb.com/features/0301VET_Red/

 

i have seen the car you are talking about somwhere, either on the net or it was in MT,s Corvette special mag

 

THATS IT. Exactly.

This thing was stopping traffic...its crazy looking.

 

I've seen it in a MT or C&D too.

 

sounds like a crossfire

 

um, no it doesnt it sounds like this vette kit duh.

 

there were two Crossfires in the same parking lot we had our meet on Saturday (which Beetroot attended)



BTW, that Vette based car Vlad found above looks incredible

 

yea, I saw one the other day< i dig it

 

maybe you saw the batmobile?

was a man with pointy ears driving????

 

I see the origina barris bat mobile driving around quite often

 

Man those crossfires are ugly. Also, am I the only one who thinks that the 350Z vert looks horrible with the top up?