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Did you know....
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:29 pm
by BAC5.2
Hertz Rental Car will rent a C6 Corvette Convertible?
Did you also know that the C6 doesn't have crap for ground clearance?
My boss and I were in Florida for the PRI trade show, and rented the Vette. It was surprisingly cool.
It was an auto, but even still it would break the tires free from a 30 or 40mph roll.
I've got a few pictures that I may post. That car got DIRTY from the dirt-turned-mud parking lot!
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:28 pm
by magicmike
my company makes the machine that grinds the gears to the correct size to fit in the assembly for that 6 speed automatic transmission built in detroit. Thats where I have spent a large portion of my life the past 2 years. P.S. I hate GM and their cars and the UAW
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:22 pm
by Splinter
Theres a C6 Z06 about 50 feet from where Im sitting here
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:12 am
by wiscon_mark
I have never driven a Corvette...
How much does Hertz charge for a day?
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:22 am
by 206er
man hertz must go through those things like crazy...
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:39 am
by Murphy
lol better get the extra insurance
dont you have to be like a Hertz Gold Member to get cars like that?
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:58 am
by BAC5.2
$250 a day. We rented one for 3 days. It was totally badass. I've never jumped a Corvette before.
We work with an australian company (Pfitzner Performance Gearbox) that makes aftermarket gears for lots of cars, including the Tremec T56 box (a 4 gear helical dogbox, and a 6 gear straight cut dogbox). The straight cut box has been tested to over 1500whp and 1490lb-ft in a Skyline GTR. AWD launches on Slicks definately puts a gearset through it's paces.
There was an australian company down the row from us who made a bunch of stuff, including an individual throttle bodied intake manifold for the LS1/LS2. We were trying to get him to let us bolt one onto our rental vette all week. No dice though, he didn't have a working model on display.
We raced the Hertz Shelby GT-H that someone at our hotel rented. What a pile. Didn't have nothin on the Vette.
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:24 am
by BAC5.2
When we got it:
And after some asshole plastered it with mud at the show...
Bad mofo Tremec box:
vs. Stock 5th and 6th:
The only other Tremec dogbox in existance is in a 1000+whp Twin Turbo Monaro.