Corvette C5-R Detail Pix

[7000in5th]

C5R-005 on eBay

Many, many pix of an actual Pratt & Miller built C5-R, inculding a separate engine! Time to get out that Revell C5-R kit and get going!

Edited January 13, 2011 by 7000in5th

[Trae]

Wow, great find. Thanks for posting!

[Terry Sumner]

Yes yes...thanks indeed for posting that! There are a TON of great detail shots there...which I saved of course!

[sjordan2]

Yeah, fantasyjunction.com is one of the best sites on the Web for photo reference, and they have a lot of turnover in their inventory. I've gathered tons of images from them over the years.

[Jon Cole]

THANK YOU for the heads up! I saved them to my photo album! Interestingly, it appears that the back window is solid black- not tinted clear. Even has a bulkhead behind the driver. So I guess the thing to do is spray the inside of the rear window gloss black. Sweet!

Or... is it?

Edited January 14, 2011 by Jon Cole

[Eric Stone]

Ooh, excellent! Thanks!

If you don't want to right click, save as all those pics, highlight the whole mess of them, copy, and paste them to a Word doc and they'll all be snagged in one shot.

[CAL]

THANK YOU for the heads up! I saved them to my photo album! Interestingly, it appears that the back window is solid black- not tinted clear. Even has a bulkhead behind the driver. So I guess the thing to do is spray the inside of the rear window gloss black. Sweet!

Or... is it?

It is black. It's translucent but very dark.

The actual race car had a rear camera that they used rather than a rear-view mirror.

Edited January 14, 2011 by CAL

[Adam144]

Very nice! I just bought the Revell 2001? C5-R Le Mans kit on the weekend. These pics will come in handy when I build it.

[iBorg]

This is one kit I'd been looking for detail information for......

Thanks!

Mike

[Nova-ss]

Thank you,great pictures and and amazing site for pictures and refence.thanks,Chris

[ra7c7er]

ebay is good for something. Nice find.

[7000in5th]

Hi to all, glad to help.

If you are interested in more C5-R information, on my web site I have preserved a variety of Corvette racing history information, particularly photos I took at many American LeMans Series (ALMS) races. During the C5-R era, I had contacts on the team and got close to the cars. I took pix with the model builder in mind. I also kept info from other sources from day one:

Above - October 5, 1998 - Autoweek - The first C5-R was a converted production 1997 Corvette Coupe. After being used for initial testing it was further converted to an "Homologation Car". This was to show that the C5-R could be used as a street car.

Enjoy!