# C5-55 Commemorative Corvette?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 2, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363 "2005-04-02T04:24:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363/1 "2005-04-02T04:24:03Z")

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I was driving home from work tonight along Pacific Coast Highway and I saw…a dream car.

It was a C5 Corvette with 1955 styling front and rear.

AFter Googling every combination of everything I could think of, I came up with [this](http://www.scalecorvettes.com/Corvette%20gallery/ismael%20c554/c555.htm) . Yes, I know, this is a model, but I swear this is exactly the car I saw on PCH tonight.

Anyone know anything about this? The text about the model doesn’t even hint at a real car ever being built - and I can’t find anything about a real car on the web.

Can you? Not that I could ever afford one, but I’d like to know that I’m not hallucinating.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363/2 "2005-04-02T04:27:43Z")

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It’s an add-on kit. This came out about 4 years ago when the Z06 was re-introduced. IIRC, it costs $30 -40K _in addition_ to your Corvette.

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363/3 "2005-04-02T04:37:59Z")

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That was quick! Thanks, **MBS**! I’m sane after all…

I’ll go back to my corner now…

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**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363/4 "2005-04-05T17:41:39Z")

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Linkage:

[http://www.aatcars.com/](http://www.aatcars.com/)  
[http://www.aatcars.com/aat\_commem/commem.htm](http://www.aatcars.com/aat_commem/commem.htm)

Looks like you can (or could) provide them with a 2003 corvette and $32,500 and they’d make one for you.

And here’s more goodness:  
[http://www.50thcommemorative.com/](http://www.50thcommemorative.com/)

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/c5-55-commemorative-corvette/297363/5 "2005-04-05T18:09:06Z")

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Off topic, but cool.

[http://hometown.aol.com/vette4door/myhomepage/](http://hometown.aol.com/vette4door/myhomepage/)