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Old 04-14-2016, 06:20 PM   #1
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Another rearview concept , opinions needed

Just thought I'd see what the c-7 owners thought of this & my use of their tail lights.
I have a highly modified 83' el camino with a 2010camaro nose [soon to be 2016 look] along with many other custom changes including a few vette items.
Never was happy with the rear look & considering adding z-06 tail lights including part of the vents to my 59' chevy inspired aluminum bedcover after reshaping the rear portion.

current look, has ecklers bubble lenses in tailgate. 3 guesses where the tailpipe idea came from.

side by side with a 2015, this owner like my ideas.

New photoshop concept pic. Bumper is cts-v inspired ,along with the license bucket.


I know, not a vehicle for everyone. Just trying to improve on it in the parameters of looking a little bit like a batmobile.

Will include many other new changes , such as the custom fendervent below.
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Old 04-18-2016, 10:25 AM   #2
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well to tell you the truth.....the C7 tail lights look MUCH better than the ones you have now.
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Old 04-18-2016, 06:24 PM   #3
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Thanks, The c-3 lights look decent from certain angles, mostly at night, but lights in a truck tailgate never look just right.
Most people either love or hate the new vette lights. I thought of them before in my bedcover, but without reshaping the cover, they just looked odd in a photoshop pic.
Also I think the z-06 version looks better with black .
Wonder if anyone else has used c-7 lights in a non c-7 application yet.
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Old 05-06-2016, 03:28 PM   #4
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Well , decided to order the z-o6 tail lights, bezels & harness, Will use different 3rd brake light.
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Old 05-08-2016, 08:09 AM   #5
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I dunno. I like the taillights.
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Old 08-03-2016, 01:22 AM   #6
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Still trying to improve my design before getting started. This sloppy pencil drawing I did has several more changes to flow better & give a more c-7 vette like appearance.


Hopefully at least batman would approve.
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Old 08-09-2016, 05:30 PM   #7
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Decided to go with actual vette bumper components. Picked up a slightly damaged upper cover for $60 bucks from recycler today.

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Old 09-19-2016, 12:04 AM   #8
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Got part of a 2016 vette upper bumper actually fit to my 83 el camino. Making a steel frame on my existing metal lower bumper to attach fiberglass to.

Will cut down & reshape the bedcover to resemble a vette spoiler from the rear. Thinking a smoothed version of the wickerbill style.

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Old 10-03-2016, 04:12 AM   #9
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Roughly finished on making & shaping a rear bumper, still need to fine tune shapes. I combined standard width upper bumper cover with the wider z-06 lower grilles and had to curve the outsides in some to better match the vehicle shape, so a standard lower bumper wouldn't have fit anyway.
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Old 02-21-2017, 06:15 PM   #10
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the end result for the back looks MUCH better than the original concept. What does it look like from the side as finished? one of the picks makes it look like the rear end sticks out from the body at the bumper. I'm guessing you found a way to smooth that out.
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Old 04-22-2017, 03:20 PM   #11
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Sadly haven't had time to work on since last fall. The vette bumper doesn't stick out past the body like it appears in the driver's side rear pic. The upper body does stick out a little past the bumper right now though.
Plans are to turn the upper bumper into a functional tailgate, extend hand made steel ground effects to line up , delete the sword blades & totally reshape the aluminum cover sides & rear to blend with the vette shape.
Also still have rear quarter damage to fix from getting cut off in traffic, which started the whole front & rear re-do project.
Here's the pass side view currently.


Here's the current front view.


Not for everyone. but it does get positive attention in person.
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Old 05-06-2017, 01:34 PM   #12
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Hey , made it on the ugly car pictures website.
http://uglycarpictures.com/trust-me-...-will-love-it/
Some people got nothing better do than take in progress pics of mine & send them out to these worthless little sites.
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Old 05-18-2017, 02:56 AM   #13
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Good job on transforming that El Camino into a cool car. I like the rear-end style.
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Old 03-17-2018, 09:11 PM   #14
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finally getting back to work on project. Started wide body on pass side in all steel. Corner of vette bumpers will be all steel, no sideview seams. Reshaping the sides of bed with 69 charger upper quarters. cut off perimeter of bedcover to drop between new side metal & fiberglass vette spoiler that I'll fabricate.
Bedcover top was originally designed to look similar to c-6 rear deck shapes, & lines look close to c-7 bumper.
20180311_193714 by joe leleux, on Flickr
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