Picture Time: When the C4 Isn't Explosive Enough
Our Picture Time subject today is a Chevrolet Corvette C4 from 1984. Or rather it used to be, before someone got some big ideas in their head — right at the same time their eyes drifted to a pile of spare fiberglass and plastic.
There may have been a photo of a Ferrari F40 lying around as well.
Listed at a dealer in Wisconsin, this first-year C4 Corvette was created by an enthusiast of bronze. Bronze paint, bronze wheels, and a gilded Bronze Age interior await a new owner.
Every conceivable surface of the car has been covered with additional parts. Spoilers front and rear, vents, portholes, cladding. Yes! All of these. And wouldn’t you know it, the stunning attention to detail carries over into the interior.
Said interior has bathed in bronze leather or convincing and life-like wood tone. There are multiple radar detectors, a CB radio, button-tufted brougham seats, and a polished wood gear lever. It’s all here, all for the taking.
Interested in lots of cars and their various historical contexts. Started writing articles for TTAC in late 2016, when my first posts were QOTDs. From there I started a few new series like Rare Rides, Buy/Drive/Burn, Abandoned History, and most recently Rare Rides Icons. Operating from a home base in Cincinnati, Ohio, a relative auto journalist dead zone. Many of my articles are prompted by something I'll see on social media that sparks my interest and causes me to research. Finding articles and information from the early days of the internet and beyond that covers the little details lost to time: trim packages, color and wheel choices, interior fabrics. Beyond those, I'm fascinated by automotive industry experiments, both failures and successes. Lately I've taken an interest in AI, and generating "what if" type images for car models long dead. Reincarnating a modern Toyota Paseo, Lincoln Mark IX, or Isuzu Trooper through a text prompt is fun. Fun to post them on Twitter too, and watch people overreact. To that end, the social media I use most is Twitter, @CoreyLewis86. I also contribute pieces for Forbes Wheels and Forbes Home.
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This is what I've always imagined happening if someone had a JC Whitney catalog from that era, tore out the accessories section and ordered one of each.
hope they ditched the cross-fire motor