BonnieS

Folks, I need advice on sourcing new side cove trim and top fender mouldings for my '59 restoration. I know there can be fit and quality issues. Anyone with recent experience good or bad that you can share on reproductions, or sources for NOS? Are all the repos just made by the same manufacturer these days? Any American made sources?
Thanks in advance!

Scott Marzahl

I recall Frankie saying that the Corvette Central trim parts were about the best you can get.

Pop Chevy

I bought an upper ( the long one) for my 59 from Corvette central and it fit perfect.

gbvette62

The top fender moldings are made by Corvette Specialties of MD West. They are the only source for the top moldings and every vendor gets them from there. Since they're all coming from the same place check around and find your best price. I think they may be considered oversize by the freight companies causing them to cost more to ship, so you might want to buy them from a vendor nearer to you.

There use to be two sources for the cove moldings, Corvette Central and Paragon Corvette. Central was the first to reproduce the cove moldings, but there was a well known issue with the fit of the right side, long, forward, curved piece. The radius of it was wrong causing it to not follow the wheel opening correctly so it was out of position where it ended at the bumper. 10-15 years ago Paragon started making their own cove moldings with correct the radius on the long right side piece, it followed the wheel opening correctly and ended at the right spot by the bumper. Now that Central and Paragon have been merged, I would hope they're selling the corrected moldings Paragon was making, and not the moldings that Central had been making?

paragoncorvette

This will continue to be a Paragon manufacturing item.

Thank you,
Tony G
Corvette Central

Crider

I just replaced mine with NOS. Got a few pieces at Carlisle the rest was bought on Ebay. For what it's worth the long upper fender trim piece needed some tweaking to get it to fit right. So GM parts may not be much better than the repops