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Laugh all you want, it may be unplayable... but DAMN it looks cool next to the Corvette!

My art deco reference was to the 1957 Chevy guitar, not the Indian.

Too bad a different brand had a Corvette model guitar ...

The stylized war bonnet-clad Indian chief is right out of the deco era too.

Anyone remember hood ornaments?

I remember seeing a limited edition Les Paul with an early '60s Corvette elliptical cove in the body. As I recall, it was light blue with a white cove. Anybody got pictures?

Paul there is a pic of one here: http://www.guitarcrazy.com.au/Corvette.htm

There is also an SG with a Corvette theme.


Also if I recall right the group The Cars has '57 Chevy tail fin guitars similar to or the same as the one posted. I think they were called Shooster (sp?).

This is what happens when you have a company that is trying to be everything for everyone. It's not enough to tastefully reissue canon models and do it right, which they don't often do, they have to try to do everything. This is something that even Fender doesn't do that often. It seems like there's always some ****** new Gibson or Epiphone that commemorates someone making a bad corporate decision.

GM would license anything...their memorable times are all in the past and now the Marketing Hookers are doing everything they can to exploit the nostalgia for those times.

To take a 3-D design archetype like Bill Mitchell's '63 Split Window and turn it into a warped 2-D pattern just to plug it into a guitar and sell a few hundred units, does Gibson, the classic SG shape, GM, and the memory of a great car, all a tremendous disservice.

Dreck. Utter dreck.

Bill Mitchell is one of my all time favorite car designers, especially his early years at Cadillac. Once again Paul is spot on.

I'd like to see one of those reissue canon models, it'd be really cool to have a guitar shaped like a canon, especially if it really worked!!! 1812 Overture anyone?

http://www.fender.com/ford/home.html

one pickup, one knob. Turn it up to 11 and put the pedal to the metal.

Oh, Carroll "I never met a buck I didn't like" Shelby.

A true legend. Terrific race car driver, great promoter. The Cobra is an amazing, larger than life case of brilliant, perfectly-timed serendipity.

Had his salad days back when GM was having THEIR salad days. Living on the fumes of his legend ever since.

What the heck does a Ford emblem and a Shelby GT stripe have to do with a geetar, except (as noted above) allow a cynical, money-grubbing manufacturer with a license to exploit (Fender , in this case) to suck a few more bucks out of a gullible public? More ugliness; more visual pollution; more cynical ****.

Gosh, do I sound a bit shrill? Maybe because I think good money should not be wasted on Bad Stuff.

good point, Paul.

IMHO any money spent on Fenders is money not spent very well. ... ok, ok, I'm prepared to take my lumps over that statement.

I have a Tele and I like it, but every time I pick it up I'm reminded that it's just a hunk of wood with a neck bolted on. Kindergarten Kraftmanship compared to a Rickenbacker.

I was at my local dealer yesterday and they have an SG GT that has a hood scoop on it. What a waste.

We're faced with these decisions every day: class or crass.

Ah well, everyone's got their own preferences. The existence of these things must mean there's a market for it.
Corporate greed isn't going away any time soon!

Mencken redux:

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."

Or some such thing. And this was a century ago.

George Babbitt is feeling proud.