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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/9/03 3:34pm Message 21 of 38
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Can us guys with the silver vettes form like a flag pole and even have a gold vette parked at the top of the pole formation. |biggrin|
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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/10/03 7:33pm Message 22 of 38
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Hey got a reply from Bobie Jo at the NCM. She likes the idea, said she was going to talk to the other managers there and get back to me. Every one wants to know how many cars it will take, I'll only get to see our GPS guy one day this week, so it may be next week b4 I know. I wonder how much room they have at the NCM. We can work that out. You know this mite actually happen.

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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/10/03 8:46pm Message 23 of 38
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If i'm right, at the bare minimum you'll need 117 corvette's. I also believe, that unless you use more cars.... lots more.... the blue and white field will need to be entirely blue, that or we get crafty with the spacing of the cars. I see a field of 13 cars tall, 9 cars deep. 117 total. The bottom 6 rows of the flag consist of the bottom six stripes, a total of 54 cars. The field consist of 7 vertical rows four cars deep. Thats 28. Then you have the rest of the stripes, 7 vertical rows, 5 cars deep. Thats 35 cars, for a total of 117. You could add more detail with more cars, but lets get realistic...., then again, i've never been to a vette club meeting, as i just joined the ranks of vette owners |cheers| Hopefully this helps all,

Brandon Red 71.... i'm a stripe!! |saluteflag|

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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/10/03 10:25pm Message 24 of 38
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using Brandon's layout that would work out to approx 90 feet x 150 feet using the size of a c3. also that works out to 47 red, 42 white and 28 blue. If you add a pole to it I would guess bout 15 silver ones parked the other direction. 32 gold cars would do a border. or one to top the pole and 32 black ones for a border.If you double the size it would be slightly bigger than a football field and would take 468 cars. 188 red, 168 white and 112 blue. How bout laying white posterboard stars on the hoods of the blue ones? Just some numbers for thought.


American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/11/03 11:28am Message 25 of 38
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Has anyone thought of doing at Mid-America's place in Efffingham, IL. They've got a field big enough to hold several thousand cars and at this years Vette Fun Fest they were selling helicopter rides so I know they can get one. They may even give some sponsorship if allowed to use the image...who knows. It's a nice central location though and may keep the travel time down for most.
Great Idea!!!! |thumb|


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Posted: 11/21/03 10:16pm Message 26 of 38
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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/22/03 6:19am Message 27 of 38
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American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/25/03 5:13am Message 28 of 38
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We did something similar at Walt Disney World a couple years ago. They made a guitar out of red, white, black, and silver Vettes. This was in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the Rockin' Roller Coaster.

They laid out the outline in the large MGM studios parking lot, parked the cars over it, and took the photos from a crane. It came out really cool. I have a copy of the photo.

One problem is the cars with glass t-tops. The top looks black from above. The flag would look like it has spots in it. Disney used those cars for the "pickup" area of the guitar and the solid topped cars for the body and neck.


American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/25/03 5:26am Message 29 of 38
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 82X-FireVette said: We did something similar at Walt Disney World a couple years ago. They made a guitar out of red, white, black, and silver Vettes. This was in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the Rockin' Roller Coaster. 


Wow! Would love to see the photo. How many cars were used? Was your car in the picture?


American Flag made of parked Corvettes

Posted: 11/30/03 7:12pm Message 30 of 38
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Eric,

I will email you the picture. Maybe you can post it here for the group to see.

Bob


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