Thanks Teri - but I thought maybe it would come out cleaner. It's a photo of a fax.
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1998 SS - Black All Options - Mods Whisper Lid, K & N, Lou's Short Stick, Shift Light, Skip Shift, SLP Y, Borla, 4:10's, BMR STB, SLP SFCs, Granatelli MAF, Hypertech III, 160 Stat, Mallory Billet Pedals, Metco Aluminum LCAs,Fast Toys Ram Air Mod, Spohn Panhard Bar, BMR Torque Arm, free EGR mod,power antenna, BMR LCA brackets, Gentex Temp/Compass Auto Dim Mirror, AllMaxx Strobe and Wig Wag, BAER Eradispeed rotors,PPC Headers with Random Technology Hi Flow Cats, BMR Drive shaft Loop,FAST 78MM Throttle Body, FAST 78MM Composite Intake, Mobil 1 & lots of Zaino.
I sure hope there's some truth in there, but if we read "All Corvette's are Red" then GM management probably did too and is keeping an eye out for clandestine development operations.
Posts: 4222 | From: Winnipeg MB CA | Registered: Feb 2000
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The Camaro we have right now is a great car. The best reason to keep the car is the ford mustang. If Pontiac and Chevy drop their F-body cars and have nothing to take their place they will have just given the field to ford. The article said there were 43000 Camaros made, giving that number of additional sales to ford would make them very happy.
In order to increase sales they need to advertise the car and market the thing. I for one did not set out to buy a Camaro initially and did not find it because of anything General Motors did, more like in spite of their lack of activity. I still hope that the car is saved as I would keep buying them as long as they make them.
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Posts: 80 | From: Cooper,TX USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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It almost looks like GM wants us to spend more money for the Corvette to get Gm performance. I had a 73 Vette. and was looking in 99 but got the SS instead. I only liked the Vette in certain colours and in the conv., but here in Canada, only certain GM dealers can sell them, so I couldn't get one within 100 miles from where I live. That was a big turn off, but I glad I got the SS. The SS gets more notice then any Vette does and as far as I'm concerned, it performs about the same.
-------------------- 99SS, C221, Black Convertible, Neutral top and neutral leather, 6spd.,B/M shifter, all power, CD/radio, traction control, loud mouth, SLP strut tower brace, K&N Filter, dyno'd at 312.6 hp. and 321.8 torque at 122.97 mph and 12.7 fuel/air ratio with the above mods. I've just installed SLP y-pipe, lid, and bellows. Dec. 2003, installed Don Goetz SFC,s. February 2004 I added white gauges. Posts: 57 | From: Port Elgin, Ontario< Canada | Registered: Feb 2000
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Last week on Car&Driver TV, their lead story was on the '01 Cobra. They made a big deal over the fact that they now are making all of their advertised 320 horses. The f-bodies are still better performers. They also mentioned that since the f-bodies are going away, Ford is targetting the Vette as the comparison car for the Mustang.
What a joke!!
While understanding that setting lofty goals gives a company a sense of direction and something to strive for, if they thought they were getting spanked in performance by the f-bodies, they've got a really big hill to climb to come close to even running in the same league, much less beating, the Vettes.
It's typical of GM though to kill off a model line after they've evolved into the irrefutable best in their class. I'd love to see C&D TV do a show on WS-6 or SS vs Cobra and settle the matter once and for all. There's no question who'll be eating the humble pie.
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Posts: 214 | From: Pepperell MA USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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