C3 Corvette wheels . . . info needed !

"Wait... I thought you said that this was a '73? The '82 rear cover won't work. And why would you want to cover this?"

I just think that the front and rear, as they are, makes it look like two different cars were grafted together in the middle; a silly design decision that makes no sense stylistically. To modify the front would take replacement fenders, hood, blinkers, nose clip, bumpers, latches and supports, and very expensive replacement grill pieces. To modify the rear would only be $150 plus $35 shipping for a fiberglass bumper cover, a little glass work and paint.

"Edelbrock makes a kit, cam, intake and heads for that SBC that is the cat's ass, just saying, no pressure."

Yeah, the engine is pretty pathetic stock, especially for a 350. Being around 40 years old, a good number of those stock horses have already left the barn. It'll need an Edelbrock kit or the equivalent just to wake up. As long as everything else doesn't also need attention, I'd consider a crate engine for sure.

Having sat for so very long, it may well need much more than I can afford unfortunately. Figure, a tune-up, gaskets, oil change, filters, brakes, hoses, lines, work on the gas tank, new fuel pump, radiator work, bushings, ball joints, tie rod ends, universal joints, e-brake cable, electrics looked at, wiper blades, vacuum lines, chassis lube, rear end and trans lube changed, tires, engine and trans mounts, and more.

I may just move this on to someone who really likes C3 Vettes rather than begin messing around with it. Would be easy to get "upside down" with such a high volume/low value Vette.

Right now I'm having fun with the wheels and such, but once I get it in the driveway, it'll probably be a much different story, you know?

If it's a 73 with chrome bumpers the tail doesn't unbolt like the rubber ones. I'm not sure but I think the quarter panels are a bit different so the 74 up pieces may not match up if you were to try and glass one on.

Probably not as Easy as Peasy, but I'm a total wizard with fiberglass. If I decide, I can make it work fine, no worries there. Still gonna hold off for now though. Have to reconnoiter/reconsider the car when I have it home and see just how far it's deteriorated during it's long sleep.

I can see that, design wise, you tread a very fine line with this series Vette. Blame it on Corvette Summer and all of the idiots who have gone before and since, but there are genuine C3 WTFs all over the internet landscape.

Even GM/Chevrolet themselves made one mistake after another after 1972. Were I to keep the car and drive it daily, there are many things that I would be tempted to "adjust" on that body. Problem is, of course, that the C3s are valueless, so any money spent is wasted.

In the midst of a real dilemma. Thankfully I don;t have my hands on it yet, so it's just wasting time thinking rather than actually doing and spending the coin needed to do it.