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The BGA April 25/26 tours, were a very exciting day for at least three individuals who took a special “Golden Ticket” BGA Bash tour — with BTW the nickname of “golden ticket” tours for the $500 NCM contribution, being coined and used by many before they were held.
During each of the five different tours, they ended with us stopping in front of the very last location on the tour, the place where we typically stop and watch a video of a C7 running on “rollers,” with your tour guide talking about the many steps used to first identify, then to fix “rattling” or similar unwanted noises. This is the location where you watch through four 4’ X 4’ windows at a Corvette about 8 feet in front of you.
During the golden ticket tours however, instead of a video, instead of a C7, was a typically camouflaged C8. We were looking at its side. It did not have the 7.181.9 logo, but was camo’d as we had seen in over 200 ILW, C8 pictures over the past 18 months. However, standing that close to it, its camo becomes even more obvious, i.e., everyone who stood there and stared, was amazed at how much camo the car has.
The three tour-taking individual this thread is centered about, entered their tours using their words describing their before-versus-after feelings about the C8, the first personal saying, “I was not at all convinced about the looks of the C8, but I now a buyer,” the second telling me that “I was neither pro nor anti the C8’s looks as I entered the tour, but now, even though it was heavily camouflaged, I could see its lines underneath, and with urgency in his voice, added, “I am off to see Mike Furman to pre-order one. Do you know where Mike is?” A third person on the tour with me commented with a “double thumbs up.” When I asked him a little more about whether this was a change of how he felt before he went on the tour and he said, “I was negative to neutral on it before.”
Exciting news indeed for all who need to see one in person before I make up my mind on whether to get one.
However, in full disclosure, the next day at the Bash, I ran into another individual who also had been at the tour, and he comment when I asked him was, “I remain unconvinced now. It will depend on what it looks like without its camouflage.”
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During each of the five different tours, they ended with us stopping in front of the very last location on the tour, the place where we typically stop and watch a video of a C7 running on “rollers,” with your tour guide talking about the many steps used to first identify, then to fix “rattling” or similar unwanted noises. This is the location where you watch through four 4’ X 4’ windows at a Corvette about 8 feet in front of you.
During the golden ticket tours however, instead of a video, instead of a C7, was a typically camouflaged C8. We were looking at its side. It did not have the 7.181.9 logo, but was camo’d as we had seen in over 200 ILW, C8 pictures over the past 18 months. However, standing that close to it, its camo becomes even more obvious, i.e., everyone who stood there and stared, was amazed at how much camo the car has.
The three tour-taking individual this thread is centered about, entered their tours using their words describing their before-versus-after feelings about the C8, the first personal saying, “I was not at all convinced about the looks of the C8, but I now a buyer,” the second telling me that “I was neither pro nor anti the C8’s looks as I entered the tour, but now, even though it was heavily camouflaged, I could see its lines underneath, and with urgency in his voice, added, “I am off to see Mike Furman to pre-order one. Do you know where Mike is?” A third person on the tour with me commented with a “double thumbs up.” When I asked him a little more about whether this was a change of how he felt before he went on the tour and he said, “I was negative to neutral on it before.”
Exciting news indeed for all who need to see one in person before I make up my mind on whether to get one.
However, in full disclosure, the next day at the Bash, I ran into another individual who also had been at the tour, and he comment when I asked him was, “I remain unconvinced now. It will depend on what it looks like without its camouflage.”
74 more days...
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