Thread: Retro or not???
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Old 04-04-2009, 11:58 AM   #8
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Suggest that you get "Camaro - Rebirth of a Legend" --

IN the book you'll find many photographs - and an entire chapter about how the concept was designed.

The entire team felt that to do a 'retro' Camaro would be limiting its appeal.

Most people who say "you should have made it more retro" -- are over 50 -- and the reality is that the new Camaro MUST appeal to a wider audience.

Thus -- there were several designs -- but Mr. Wellburn pushed the team to push further out...........

If you take a new Camaro -- and over it in white silk, it does not look like a Camaro in profile -- but when you remove the silk, you see a fresh design with "heritage styling cues"

I won't go into the hidden headlights issue again -- I've written about it until I'm blue in the face.........


One last thought: I would not want to 'repaint' the Mona Lisa --

.........and one needs to be careful when 'redoing' a 1969 Camaro -- it could come off looking like a 1970 Barracuda!
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