Unusual C6 picture

[dizzzzy]

Hello all,
Found this unusual picture of the C6 being unlaoded off a 747 in england this sept.. I have tried to post it here, but it is telling me the photo is too large. This is the link to the picture, if someone can put it up, it is a good one for all to see.
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.cgi?149755

[invinceablevett]

nice find.How'd you come across this photo?

[purtyvette]

excellent intel, great photo.

[corvettecrazy]

looks like solid rotors on that one

[blocker44]

I have not seen that one yet.

[CFour]

I wonder how much all this globe trotting is going to add to the sticker price? :L

[ROCKETBLOCK]

Probably on its way to Nurbergring in Germany. Couldn't help but notice the wheels look like C5. Maybe just to roll it around for shipping.

[Rain]

Far out!

[Rain]

Closer of the Vette :

[Gorgon]

Originally posted by ROCKETBLOCK
Couldn't help but notice the wheels look like C5. Maybe just to roll it around for shipping.

Those actually look like polished versions of the wheels we've seen on the test cars. They look pretty nice all polished up like that. :)

Leon

[JT ZR-Won]

Originally posted by Gorgon
Those actually look like polished versions of the wheels we've seen on the test cars. They look pretty nice all polished up like that. :)

Leon

I like the wheels too. Very :cool

Jay

[CFour]

Yea, Finally a decent looking wheel

[Corvette-Pilot]

Originally posted by ROCKETBLOCK
Probably on its way to Nurbergring in Germany. Couldn't help but notice the wheels look like C5. Maybe just to roll it around for shipping.

:confused :confused The whole thing looks like a C5 :confused :confused

Maybe the roofline of the Nissan ZX ?

[LongTimer]

Thanks, Great Post!!

When you zoom in on the wheels, especially the front wheels, it looks like there is a slight "fold" in the middle of each spoke. To me, it looks like each spoke has a slight "V" that is deepest near the hub and gradually lessens as the spoke nears the outer rim. Anyone else see that?

At this angle the fenders look somewhat C2 ish to me - with more curve in the front due to the short overhang that we STILL can't see.

[budweisert]

Originally posted by LongTimer
Thanks, Great Post!!

When you zoom in on the wheels, especially the front wheels, it looks like there is a slight "fold" in the middle of each spoke. To me, it looks like each spoke has a slight "V" that is deepest near the hub and gradually lessens as the spoke nears the outer rim. Anyone else see that?

At this angle the fenders look somewhat C2 ish to me - with more curve in the front due to the short overhang that we STILL can't see.

These are definitely the polished versions of the test mules' flat black wheels.
I can see what your talking about with that V-crease. It looks like an enlongated pyramid. I'm sure there are a lot of subtle features of those wheels that you can't see from a distance.
Take a look @ all the previous spy shots and you will probably find a lot more.:CAC

[Sharondippity]

Originally posted by Corvette-Pilot
:confused :confused The whole thing looks like a C5 :confused :confused

Maybe the roofline of the Nissan ZX ?

I was thinking the same thing.

:confused

[70Coupe]

I hope the camo on the fenders and rear end are hiding something worth waiting for because it sure looks like the C5 to me in this shot.

[JBsC5]

I hate to say it but it sure does look like a C5!

[Brett]

The whole thing looks like a C5

I was thinking the same thing

I hope the camo on the fenders and rear end are hiding something worth waiting for because it sure looks like the C5 to me in this shot.

hate to say it but it sure does look like a C5!


Well, quite frankly, what do you expect?! Have you not been paying attention to the motivation behind the C6? The C5 is still current technology. If it wasn't for Cadillac, we would still be getting a C5 next year! This isn't a technology generation change, like C3 to C4, and C4 to C5 was.

On the picture: I dig the rims. Very nice. And the wheel-wells definitely look too large. Perhaps some changes on the real thing there as well?



Brett

[LongTimer]

On another site, we had quite a bit of speculation about the yellow tape on the fender of the pic I posted above and on the Plane pic. Here's my input:

While parked at the German equivalent of a 7-11 alongside the Autobahn about an hour NE of Frankfurt, a man named Dunne sits in his rental car watching an unusual looking white car with bras covering each end. The driver of the white car has just entered the store and Dunne can see from his view point that the driver just entered the restroom. As Dunne's Nikon motor begins to overheat, he eyes the yellowish tape on the upper, front fender of the white car. He decides to peal back the tape. As he is laughing hysterically, out of the corner of his eye, he notices the restroom door open. He hastily slaps the tape back onto the fender, ducks down, and low crawls to his rental car.

Once brushed off, back inside his car, and belted in, he pauses, and once again he starts to laugh uncontrollably. He wishes he had had another 15 seconds to set up a shot of that fender with the tape peeled back, showing the outline of a little boy with his back to the viewer, apparently urinating on a Viper. He's certain that Road and Track would have paid him handsomely for that pic. Oh well.

[Rain]

FUNNY! ;LOL

[aaronlupton]

Hello -

First off, I am total rubbish with cars - am a 21 year old photogpraher that works in aviation, and photographs aircraft.

Ok, it would seem you have used one of my pictures on here - Dont worry, am not mad at you all. I just wanted to know what exactley have I photographed? You all seem keen to see it?

The airport it was taken at is caled East Midlands Airport (EMA), with Europes largest DHL hub. The aircraft came in from Chicago, stayed at EMA and went to Amsterdam.

I take loads of photos here, and have more photos with cars coming out of the aircraft. They are currently not online, just on my PC and backup media.

If you want more, please let me know?

my site is www.takeoff.to/ema <--- you can email from here too.

[GX624]

What we're so keen on is the car in the photo. If you are who you say you are, and that photo is yours, you've stumbled onto a camouflaged next-generation 2005 Chevrolet Corvette. We've been scrounging the net for spy photos.

Thanks for letting us view it, and, if you don't mind and have more photos of the car, would you post them to your site? General Motors is doing a great job at hiding this car until its unveiling in January 2004, so any new photo whets our collective appetite for more.

Thanks again,
great photo.
Cheers.

[aaronlupton]

Yes, I am who I say I am - my website should confirm that. Loads of cars come into the airport all the time, may be on to a catch here?

Infact some people have emailed me wanting the photos - Any ideas what price photos of these would go for, so am not ripped off?

I have some "super" close ups too. I took close ups because I did not know what the car was? You can see text sheets on it, lables and all sorts. I have around 5 pics. Plus there is a BMW (I think) and also a chequred flag like car too?

Thanks,

Aaron Lupton

www.takeoff.to/ema

[Brett]

You snapped a picture of a camo'd sixth generation Corvette test car, to be unveiled to the public in January. The new Corvette is always one of the most anticipated vehicles in the auto industry. Magazines eat up any kind of picture of them. Your picture is the first one any of us have seen with those rims on it. Very cool!

If you have more Corvette pics, we would love to see them!



Brett

[aaronlupton]

Will try and put some up.

to me, they are of no interest - no offence guys.

If you, or anybody does want to buy them THIS INCLUDES copyright, let me know and I will sell em to the first taker? You can email me privatley for sample of them if you like, or to talk "business"...

I sell photos all the time for aviation magazine and journals, so I play fair.


I will uplaod some smaller pics on here though, so you can all see em, just to prove and not just "Mr Money bags"...

if you can pre-warn me of other cars, I may be able to be regular here?

[GX624]

Thank you, Aaron.

Sorry to say I don't know anything about $$ for photos & magazines. Maybe someone else here will chime in on that. I do know, however, that photos of these test cars have, indeed, been published in auto magazines. For reference you might take a gander at the following site (sorry, I forgot the name of the person who runs the site):

Corvette Spyshot Site (http://palmeter.com/CorvetteTimelineW11P06.htm)

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[aaronlupton]

done a little site for you all guys:

http://www.thecreek.fsbusiness.co.uk/hires.html

they are low quality because I want no hijackers taking my snaps.

[corvettecrazy]

if I were you I would contact magazines such as motor trend or Car and Driver. it is possible that they would buy the photos from you. you never know until you ask.

BTW: you take some SWEET shots!!!!!

[budweisert]

The "checkered-flag" looks to be the 2005 Caddilac STS, and the BMW looks like it could be an uncovered Next-Generation BMW 3-series. :eek :eek :eek



....you are sitting on a money-pit my freind....

[budweisert]

How much would you be selling them for???


:SLAP

[Hib Halverson]

Seems like one place to get shots like that in the States will be wherever at O'Hare, Kalitta Air loads it's planes.

As for the European spy shooter who shot the images, why not try to sell them to the European motoring press?

[aaronlupton]

If it is a uncovered Next-Generation BMW 3-series then that is good I guess right? I have a craking pic of this too!

Who is best to buy them off me?

[Brett]

Where is the bimmer? I just see two pics of the 'vette and two of the checkered car.

I don't know much about selling pics to magazines, but a cool UK magazine I know of is called "Car". Their website is: www.carmagazine.co.uk

I've seen Car and Driver and MotorTrend print lots of spyshots too, so I would simply give them all an email and see what they say. Good luck.



Brett

[JBsC5]

The new generation 3 series or 4 series..whatever they are going to call it..has been running around sans camoflage for months here in Northern NJ.

They just covered the badges..

Its an absolute winner that the BMW groupies are going to go nuts over.

Thanks for your shots of the STS and C6.

Very cool.

JB

[Buster1]

The more I look at the rear end of the C-6, the more I think we are seeing what the actual shape will be. Look at the first photo in this thread...the camo just forms too snug to the body of the car. Unlike the front, the camo there looks like a 7 year old could have made it...it doesn't fit right, and it just doesn't look right. IMO.

I think the back end is it friends.

Great photos...good luck making some cash on them.

[edbard]

Great Photohttp://home.comcast.net/~ebard66526/DSC00011_copy.jpg :L :Roll :dance