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Simple question
Did all 63's come with fiberglass headlight buckets? If not what month or approximate VIN # would they have changed to metal?
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Most were fiberglass but some after vin 21000 may have pot metal housings. 
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So if a mid production car has metal it would be safe to say that they have been changed out. I am trying to see if their is a correlation between when the headlight bezels started being screwed in from the side versus being screwed in from the front. I thought that I read somewhere that the fiberglass buckets had bezels that screwed in from the front and the metal buckets had bezels that screwed in from the sides.
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later production 63 Corvette’s had fiberglass buckets with a metal bezel that screwed in from the side. I had an original 63 that was produced the last two weeks of production and they are fiberglass. I also have serial number 20,7xx and they are fiberglass. It is not uncommon to find a Corvette’s all through the year with metal buckets because so many of these cars got hit in the front and where replaced with the newer style buckets.
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