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Overall "Corvette by the Numbers" provides a great resource for all numbered corvette parts and their respective date codes.
I would suggest visiting the NCRS National site, got to the store section and you will have a good selection from books specializing in trim plates, to birthdates of you car, to the book I mentioned above.
They have a good choice of books to purchase specifically for what you are asking for.
Designer Imagines A Corvette That Looks More Like a Corvette Than the Corvette
Slideshow: A Jaguar designer's personal project imagines what a modern front-engined Corvette might look like if Chevrolet revisited the golden age of the Stingray.