Chevy 789 as a Frankenstein conversion based on Corvette C6!

Recently updated on June 29, 2022 at 08:38 am

This Chevy 789 ("Seven-Eight-Nine") is a Frankenstein monster in the style of the 50s with the dimensions 4,6 meters in length, 1,9 meters in width and 1.671 kg empty weight. Although, like a monster, the 789 doesn't really look like we think! The Front shows the style elements of the 57 Chevy Bel Air, on the side of the Delray ragtop from 1958 and the stern is off 59 Impala model borrowed. And while such projects often end up looking something that takes getting used to, the team here has everything Gene long knife, Head of Kanter Concepts and N2A Motors (“no two alike”), achieved a great result. The vehicle was created on the basis of a Chevrolet Corvette C6which, however, had to give up its entire body. For one new shell Made of carbon fiber composite with glass fiber layers in a ratio of 80/20. This was previously screwed onto the tubular frame using wooden parts, and then around 1.500 pounds of modeling clay were used for the shell.

Chevy 789 from N2A Motors

After you get the Body shapes had been transferred to the 1: 1 model, the key data were using Laser scan loaded into a computer and the five Fiberglass parts the body could be designed accordingly and calculated and built for the manufacturing process.

The new components of the 789 (Seven-Eight-Nine) are combined with the original ones Headlights and their borders in front, the Hood vee and also the Rockets on the bonnet are not missing. At the stern one installed below the Bad wings tail fins can OEM '59 Chevy taillights. And it has long been the case with the vehicle from the pictures and from the video not a single project from the custom scene. If you look closely, you will recognize the modern Windscreen and the Mirrors. Another tribute to modern times are those page marks and those integrated in the rear apron Reversing lights. All of these properties are also found in the "further vehicles of the small series".

a small series of the Chevy 789 was produced

In 2007 alone, when the vehicle premiered at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas in November, the N2A company sold 14 vehicles. Unfortunately, we cannot currently say how much it was in total. In 2008 they were already at 18 vehicles arrived. For that we know something else, namely that that 789 emblem is a direct reference to the engine displacement. Because under the hood is the 400 hp slumbering 6,0 liter V8 the C6 included OEM gearbox and rear-wheel drive. And that too Interior cannot deny the donor vehicle. They are unmistakable dashboardwhich Steering wheel and the Center console taken from the Vette. The seats are also from the athlete, but they are new Upholstery beefed up.

no color combination was repeated

Those interested in a Chevy 789 could get the rims or the Colors and color combinations determine yourself. However, only at an additional cost to the previous one base Price from $ 139.500 including the C6 as a coupe, or $ 144.500 as a convertible. If the C6 had already been supplied, then "only" approx. 75.000 dollars for the conversion, which required a good 5.000 working hours and was about 14 weeks in coming, due. By the way: there was an already existing color combination not a second time. Whether N2A Motors the 789 or the one presented a little later 7-8-9 pp (Born in 2016/2017) based on Chevrolet Camaro Convertible currently still building, we don't know. Tip: There are a few bullet points about the Camaro conversion at the end of the article. If we get more information about the changes, there is of course an update for this report. You will be informed of this if you simply do ours Feed subscribe to. Have fun watching the pictures and stay true to us!

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"Chevy 789" based on Corvette C6!
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N2A 789 SS based on the Chevrolet Camaro Cabriolet

• Base: Camaro Cabriolet SS, 2SS, ZL1 (Cabriolet from 2010 to 2015)
• inspired by the '57, '58 and '59 Chevy design
• Body made of carbon fiber composites
• Each Camaro Cabriolet conversion is named according to the performance level of the donor vehicle (e.g. 789 SS, 789 ZL)
• new back seat
• the vehicle is built according to individual wishes (from tuning to painting)
• the cost of a turnkey vehicle as a Camaro 7-8-9 depends on the cost of the donor vehicle
• Service packages from 525 to +1000 hp
• the Camaro 7-8-9 can be serviced at any GM dealer
• possible vehicles are the 789 SS as the successor to the 789 based on the C6 Corvette Coupé, Targa or Cabrio

and there is also a 789 XLR based on Cadillac XLR with a retractable hardtop

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