Any one out there who worked in the Styling department that might know where I can get my hands on the digitized body dimensions taken from any of the C2 clay models or other mock-ups used back then?
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I have to ask why you need them? -
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Hi Wayne-see my profile-since I've been running the 3D solid modeling software (5 years) it seems like nothing is real unless I have it in the computer-out of touch with reality I guess-but it's soooo neat. Also, if I can get the data, I can model it and play with a customizing design I'd like to see the looks of. If you examine how Shinoda blended the Sting Ray rear end on the '61 and imagine the same with the Sting Ray front end while keeping the cove-that's what I think Chevy should have done, largely in the interests of model continuity but also because the cove looks so darn neat!Comment
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Re: C2-body checking dimensions
Tony,
Do you know if digitized data ever even existed for the C2
body panels? I thought forms taken from the clay models were turned
into wood models. These wood models and the resulting blueprints were
the master reference for the body panels,not any type of digital database. .
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Hi John- John Hinckley (Snake488@aol.com) responded to my first post on body checking dims like those that are in the 1964 assembly manual. I can't find that post and his response on Oct 16. Anyhow, he was one of the process engineers on the corvette at the time and said they had a book of 800 or so dims that they used to check the initial body builds and then production inspection checked others periodically to verify tooling and processes. He mentioned that the guys in the styling dept did a manual digitization of the clay thus the current post. To his knowledge, that book and other good stuff went in the dumpster when they left St. Lu in 1981.Comment
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