Jack I am not trying to troll here. It is not just this web site but a number web sites are tying to do this what if stuff. Sadly most fall short. It is not a bad reflection on the artist but not everyone can design a car well. Just look at some on the roads and many from local customizers to even some factory models fall short. Not everyone is a Dick Dean, Kindig, Foose or or Harley Earl.
In fact I blame much of the retro stuff on companies not willing to take risk due to the lack of really good stylist today. It is not easy to be a stylist with all todays regulations even with talent.
To be honest I would not want a to submit anything to someone who would do this to a Chevelle.
My favorite styled body is a 250 Lusso. It is a great example where less is more.
My idea of building a Chevy is not to make it look like a Mopar. Nor would I put Corvette tail lamps on a Superbird.
If I were to do this car I would lower it. Pro Touring style with large tires all the way around under the body. Cowl injection hood. Remove the Vortex crap and cheap spoiler. In fact remove all the door handles and emblems. Even a slight lower lowered roof. Then no graphics.
The nose on my 72 GMC Sprint SP had a black grill so I got extra head lamp buckets and removed the emblems. I then made tinted plexi covers to go over the lamps to black out the entire nose with smooth clean black between the corner lamps. It had a clean bumper but I would have like to narrow it and make it more flush to the body in the color of the vehicle.
I admit I have some great ideas in my mind but no talent to put them to paper.
I have succeeded in building a number of cars that have held up over time. Many cars don't pass the sniff test after ten years. Look at many built in the 80's today and people see them thinking what some were thinking. It was the era of excess. I think that is why so many traditional coupes and high boys hold up well as they were not over done.
I would like to see this car with an aero nose but something more GM or original.
FYI Smokey Yunick was thinking Vortex Generators in 1967. The Chevelle he had used them till NASCAR pulled them off in tech.
Actually one race he did not cut the fenders and just flared them out over the tires. Qualified then cut them so he could change the tires.
Art is interpretive and so is styling. Show someone a Expensive French painting and one may see art and another may see naked drunk French girls. Not all see things the same.
I have a friend that sell sounds as art. He makes a lot of money doing it. He also keeps a straight face doing it.
