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Dec 3, 2015 | 05:34 PM

Kid Vette

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Custom Shark Nose

Anybody know if the nose on this Craigslist Corvette is a one off custom or somebody was selling these back in the day. Seems like I remembering seeing this on other Vettes back in the 70s.

CUSTOM 1974 CORVETTE "SHARK"

Dec 3, 2015 | 06:27 PM

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This looks like a job for THE BAT!

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Dec 3, 2015 | 07:34 PM

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This looks like a job for THE BAT!

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Nice custom job!

Dec 3, 2015 | 11:19 PM

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I do not believe anyone sold front ends in that configuration. The lights and flares are common, but the way the very center of the nose comes to a point is, I think, 1 man's idea of "style."

Dec 4, 2015 | 07:25 PM

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Motion sold them in 1976 for $695.00. Looks like the owner may have changed the lights as they were usually hidden behind the grill

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Dec 4, 2015 | 10:38 PM

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I do not believe anyone sold front ends in that configuration. The lights and flares are common, but the way the very center of the nose comes to a point is, I think, 1 man's idea of "style."

I don't remember anybody selling that one.

Dec 5, 2015 | 02:16 PM

Kid Vette

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I think this nose is different than the Maco's and I noticed the ad has a pic of what appears to be another Vette with the same nose.

So there must have been a few made. Maybe I'll contact the seller and see if he has any info.

At any rate, if I had more time and money I'd be tempted to go after this one. I'd swap out the ugly rear end, stick a big block in it and add header side pipes and have a lot of fun with an "in your face" rat rod! Leave it in primer and drive the p*ss out of it.

Mar 22, 2016 | 09:44 PM

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this peaked beak was a popular custom touch on many cars years back and I have seen it on many c3's and a few c2's somewhere I have a flyer from silva who invented the mako showing many custom c2 front ends one was this peaked beak idea,
Silva offered many c3 noses included different versions of the mako that motion made famous.
I have never seen it in off the shelf form as a part for the c3 but by how many I have seen on cars that matched I bet someone like brunos or scorpion or silva offered one back in the 70's....