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Old Nov 7, 2018 | 09:34 AM
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while digging around at a local corvette grave yard, i came across 2 oem nos top surrounds. now, they look like 68-72 units. but after doing a google search i found that the 73-74 looks allot like the early ones also. how can i tell the difference between these? the front nose brace looks the same as well as the main headlight support! any help out there please? thanks guys! troy
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Old Nov 7, 2018 | 10:26 AM
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Are you talking about hood surround panels? 68-72 have provision for short hoods and chrome bumper mounting. 73-74 do not.
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And the lip in front of the headlights is around an inch on 73-4. 3/8ths inch on 68-72. The front of that lip has a flat lip with bolt holes to mount the glass bumper. The 68-72 has a short vert drop with a curved lip that sits under the bumper.

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