Installing c6 Headlights in a C3
Drifting
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Burning Brakes
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I've been wanting to do it for some time now I think it looks bad *** like the c3/c6 conversion. It'll take some fab work but possible I hope you do it keep us posted. Here's a guy that did the same only different.
Melting Slicks
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I've been thinking of doing that myself and wondered what it would look like,and or how they would fit into the body lines. WOW, better than I imagined. The price for C6 headlamps is very high but the weight reduction [about 80#s] just might justify the purchase. Thanks for the pictures. T
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Burning Brakes
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From: Killeen Texas
I'm in the hunt for some Chrystal Red c6 lights. That is going to be the color on my 73.
Safety Car
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C6 head lights don't even look good on a C6. I know I have one. I see them every day. Hidden headlights look better. The whole front of my C5 looks better than the C6. Don't ruin a C3 please! 
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Last I knew, a few years ago, the C6 headlight assemblies cost about $800 each. Also, the headlight lenses are plastic. It they are exposed to sunlight for any significant time, they will fog.
If you really want this look, I think you really should get the L88 racing headlights that were exposed a la C6, but appeared in the late 1960's and early 1970's Corvette race cars. The L88 style Le Mans headlights look much more stock like and appropriate for the C3. As far as I know, these headlights never were factory original, but the C3 L88 racing community embraced them. Last I knew, you could buy conversion kits from vendors.
If you really want this look, I think you really should get the L88 racing headlights that were exposed a la C6, but appeared in the late 1960's and early 1970's Corvette race cars. The L88 style Le Mans headlights look much more stock like and appropriate for the C3. As far as I know, these headlights never were factory original, but the C3 L88 racing community embraced them. Last I knew, you could buy conversion kits from vendors.
Race Director
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Your car.....your choise.....but it won't be easy to make the C6 lights "flow" with the lines of a C3. Take a good look at the C6 nose on the C3. The lines are way different. You might want to consider fabricating something that fits in the original headlight bucket holes and covering them with plexi-glass that you cut to fit and cover what ever you come up with. Plus you end up with something that really is one of.
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From: Eustis ( Area 51 Bat Cave ) Fl
Okay...the L-88 race lights do look all bug eyed gross...people like them because that have that "L-88" tag on them....
C6 headlights...leave them on c6's in fact leave all modern lights off the classic c3's, If you like c6's buy one....if you want better lighting use some HID kit that fits the stock lamps......
