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Send PMEasthampton, MA - USA
Joined: 5/27/2007
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Vette(s): 1970 corvette conv, 350 auto.
OK heres one that will probably start some controversy. My vert is a 1970 and I had on it a 1970 only style front left grill and a later style right grill. I recently got rid of the early style grill for a matching pair of the later style. I just wanted them to match and the fact that they had a couple extra screw holes did not seam to make a whole lot of difrence to me...especially because as cars where involved in accedents and such the later style was all that was available. I resolved myself to the fact that I would have a missmatch grills for the year of the car (technically) and very few people would ever notice. I just bought "the corvette restoration guide" and read some thing that caught my attention. It states that in the later 1970 cars (assembled in June or July) they would sometimes have the newer style grills and that even some of the early 1971 cars where found to have the ealier style !! My car is a fairly late 70 being produced on July 21 of 1970......so Could these grills actually be conscidered correct?? It will probably never be restored to the extent of realy worriing about this...BUT...I am curious how this would be judged if it where to. Thanks!!

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Most judges know whats correct, but like you said most people wouldn't notice the difference, like at local car shows. Maybe go with what you have and look for the ones that came with your vette.
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It is common knowledge that whatever parts were on hand at the time would get put on cars coming down the line. Having one of each version of the grill on the car is even within the realm of possibility.
Only to the REALLY serious folks would it matter if the grills are correct or not. You have some documentation to back having the latter version on your car so I wouldn't worry to much about it.
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Your car might have been assembled with either type grill, but it would have been assembled with the same type pair. It's not likely they would have used two different types on the same car.

6880Mike 2008-11-21 06:34:05

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I would have to agree with Mike.
I have seen this on a few cars, but mostly on the ones with A/C. My guess is, and this is only specualtion, that at some point, while servicing the A/C, one of the pins on the original grill got broken, and swapped for the only one they could buy at the time.
Just a thought.

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