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Anyone drop a cool Body on a C5 chassis?

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Old 07-22-2018, 01:19 PM
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So I have a low mileage C-5 Corvette with fibreglass damage all around. The car runs and drives perfect. It's a shame to sell it for parts yet it's not worth doing all the fibreglass repairs to put it back on the road. Has anyone installed a different body on a C-5 Corvette? I realize it would be a lot of work so it only makes sense to install a desirable car body, preferably Chevy on a Corvette. Ideas anyone?
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Unless you were really just wanting to move away from the C5 body style, I would think it would cost as much or probably more in both time and money to go with an aftermarket kit as it would to find good replacement body panels from wrecked C5s.
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Lot of older car bodies wont fit, they arent as wide. WCC tried doing a hackjob like that with a Challenger? Ugh lol

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Old 07-22-2018, 03:52 PM
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I'd rather put a C5 body on a C7.....
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