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Old Jan 18, 2008 | 10:11 PM
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Old Jan 18, 2008 | 10:35 PM
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Looks cool!
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Old Jan 18, 2008 | 10:41 PM
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That looks amazing
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Old Jan 18, 2008 | 11:29 PM
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I would love to have one. This car is only looking better!!! Just keep the cost and weight down, GM!!!

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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 10:49 AM
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Needs some Z/28 badging...

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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 11:47 AM
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I did this chop to show how close the preproduction camaro pic that was released the other day and the concept bodys are about exactly the same besides the rear bumper.

The car above is Bumblebee not the preproduction car. I think they look identical. I chopped all the preproduction parts over to the concept car, but I did not change the body one bit.
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 01:15 PM
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looks good, you should make it more Le Mans blue.
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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how do you do that? change color i mean....i have PS CS2 and am still learning all the tricks....trying to recall my multimedia class i had in high school and it isn't working...

nice job btw
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 05:03 PM
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the blue one looks to much like a mach 1 mustang blue but other than that i like
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 05:51 PM
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Nice chop , but I hate the color . I dunno what GM was thinkin with the Blue flash metallic color .
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Old Jan 19, 2008 | 05:54 PM
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