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C5-53 Commemorative Edition Corvette
A few years ago, Bill Miller; chief designer of Magna Steyr, and Steve Pasteiner, a former GM designer, took the challenge of working on an interesting idea: Taking the look of the original 1953 Corvette and update it to fit the technology of today's Corvette. Magna Steyr commissioned the design and construction of a prototype to be presented to GM with the hopes of been adopted as the 2003 model. GM liked the idea but eventually decided on the conservative route and use the existing C5 design. GM allowed Advanced Automotive Technologies to produce the vehicle, but it is not an officially endorsed GM product. AAT is producing the car, converting convertible and hardtop C5s in its Rochester Hills, Michigan assembly plant. All new body panels are installed without any structural modification, or any safety feature altered.
The model:
Don Theune built this gorgeous C5-53
Commemorative in the traditional white / red color combo. Don has built several of these for his ScaleVisions
customers.
The gorgeous body is designed to be used with the Revell snap C5 Corvette
Convertible
Don replicated the most common color combination of the real car, white with red
interiors, just like the original '53
Reliable Resins offer the 2000 on style wheels in resin.
Reliable Resin also offers a resin up top.
If you would like to contact Don on this model his e-mail address is: scalevisions@aol.com
Page updated 06/03/04