eBay find of the day: n2a Motors 789 serial #001
n2a Motors 789 - Click above for a high-res image gallery
The n2a Motors 789 is perhaps the ultimate automotive expression of retro styling. Based on a C6 Corvette chassis and using hand-crafted carbon composite body panels, the 789 features styling cues from 1957, '58, and '59 Chevrolets. Just over 20 of these unique cars have been built over the past few years, the first of which n2a Motors is putting up for auction on eBay. Featuring an LS2 V8, custom Budnik wheels, and a Borla exhaust system, chassis #001 was used as the promotional car at the Los Angeles and New York auto shows and still has the remainder of GM's five-year/100,000 warranty. Best of all, the winning bidder gets to take delivery of the car immediately and doesn't have endure the typical 12-week wait for a brand new 789.
Gallery: n2a Motors 789
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Protzenegger 7:33PM (5/08/2009)
The craftsmanship is impressive, but something about those proportions doesn't quite sit well with me. The front looks too flat, or too long... Can't put my finger on it. And those wheels need to go.
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AMcA 9:07PM (5/08/2009)
I can verify that: I've seen one of these crazy machines up close (at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale in 2007 - might even have been this exact car, as it was the same color scheme). And the craftsmanship is excellent. Really amazing, considering how totally insane the styling is.
Rev 8:59AM (5/09/2009)
I think the word "craftsmanship" gets thrown out the window the second you get to the interior.
That's just fleetmobilerifficly, plasticy wrongness. Even a Hyunai interior would have been an upgrade... They could have at least paid a couple extra dollars for a decent steering wheel and covered the cheap plastics with material.
UCJR 7:36PM (5/08/2009)
As much as I really don't like most retro-'Vette kits that have to be stretched onto a C5 or C6 frame, this one really looks good. As in, "if-I-could-get-it-for-reasonable" good.
In my opinion, of course.
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1337 7:31PM (5/10/2009)
I'd rather just have a new C6.
Dan 7:37PM (5/08/2009)
Rubber band tires on monster bling wheels look just plain wrong on this.
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Ras Thavas 9:02PM (5/08/2009)
Agreed!
Yaroukh 7:37PM (5/08/2009)
(speechless)
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EU_reader 7:43PM (5/08/2009)
In a good way, or in a bad way ;)
Yaroukh 8:18PM (5/08/2009)
in a good way definetely... not that it would be 100pct flawless, but overall it is just stunning (for my eyes at least)
Aprime 7:45PM (5/08/2009)
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/05/n2a789_28.jpg
They didn't even dust it off before taking the pictures.
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Jrejre 8:12PM (5/08/2009)
You know for all the work they did to it, they couldn't do something about the big corvette lettering on the dash?
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Dave 8:18PM (5/08/2009)
Shave its butt and teach it to walk backwards.
No, wait....scratch that.....the back is hideous too.
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drtyjrsy 8:26PM (5/08/2009)
I think its ugly.
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CMDR 8:42PM (5/08/2009)
If you look at picture #7 you can see its only beauty flaw, the angle of the windshield is to far back and disturbs the rest of the gorgeous design.
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Yaroukh 10:12PM (5/08/2009)
i do agree it is too much, but still the front saves it for me
Eric 9:12PM (5/08/2009)
57, 58, and 59 vettes??? Try 57, 58, and 59 Bel Air's
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DKB_SATX 10:12PM (5/08/2009)
At least when I read it, the article refers to '57, '58 and '59 Chevrolets, not Corvettes specifically.
toronado455 9:33PM (5/08/2009)
If you're gonna make a car out of bits and pieces of other cars, you should at least paint the whole thing the same color to tie everything together visually. Otherwise its confused identity remains too obvious.
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Dennis 10:11PM (5/08/2009)
OMG, this is my town. I am going to take a look at it up close tomorrow. Definitely did not think this was located in Jersey.
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