strange mongrel vette?
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strange mongrel vette?
There's a yellow vette parked in front of my apartment today. Belongs to someone else in the complex. He doesn't know what year it is. I first guess it a '74 because it has rubber bumpers both front and back, and has the chrome luggage rack on the rear deck. However, the front bumper has flares near the front tires like a '78 would.
So my guess was '74 coupe with a '78 bumper/front end. Is it possible that the '74 came with the optional flared front end?
So my guess was '74 coupe with a '78 bumper/front end. Is it possible that the '74 came with the optional flared front end?
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Re: strange mongrel vette? (jem7vwh)
It has probably been in one or more accidents and the owner "updated" the styling with a new models front end.
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Re: strange mongrel vette? (A2Shark)
The '74 rear bumper had a split in the middle of it (unique to that year) - sometimes nicknamed the "split-tail" vette.
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But the original rear is probably LONG GONE
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Re: strange mongrel vette? (jem7vwh)
All vettes are muts...
lemme explain....
a few years ago I helped a lady friend buy a vette from my neighbor, so for 3500 some bux she bought this tired '78, car ran, but that was all....
well so over the next couple of years on and off it was repainted twice on account of fiberglass contamination/paint bubbles, ets...
and I rebuilt nearly everything in the car....front to rear suspension, differential, brakes, a/c ,.. everything except engine/tranny...
too boot when she bought it, it had an 82 type front and rear ends...frame bent from collision (s)....etc....
rusted out windshield A pillar, T tops leaked....
repainted interior...
guess what????
sold for 11 GRAND.......
lemme explain....
a few years ago I helped a lady friend buy a vette from my neighbor, so for 3500 some bux she bought this tired '78, car ran, but that was all....
well so over the next couple of years on and off it was repainted twice on account of fiberglass contamination/paint bubbles, ets...
and I rebuilt nearly everything in the car....front to rear suspension, differential, brakes, a/c ,.. everything except engine/tranny...
too boot when she bought it, it had an 82 type front and rear ends...frame bent from collision (s)....etc....
rusted out windshield A pillar, T tops leaked....
repainted interior...
guess what????
sold for 11 GRAND.......
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Re: strange mongrel vette? (jem7vwh)
Sounds right. I was at Thunderhill with the NorCal Shelby club this last weekend and a guy had a "68" vette racecar for sale. The only thing I could find that might have been '68 was the rear body! Front clip and doors were mid '70's rubber bumper, but it was a 'vert. He wanted $14,000 for it before the engine started suddenly smoking hard from the left bank in turn 4. He said it was just "to much crankase pressure"! Yea, right, more like melted piston "blow-by"... :lol:
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