Mid year corvette boneyards

[Tony DiGiorgio]

Hello all, helping a friend with a project. Needs 66 body pieces, does not make financial sense for him to buy from aftermarket companies as car is not well optioned and return wont be there. Who knows where there might be a mid year boneyard anywhere in country or who knows anyone who might have 66 project body who may want to sell. If not wanting to post publically, my addreess is digtony@gmail.com.
Best Regards, and thanks in advance Tony DiGiorgio 937.477.1022

[Joe L.]

Re: Mid year corvette boneyards

Tony-----

I think that he may find that after he finds the pieces in a "mid year boneyard", he might appreciate just how much of a bargain the aftermarket, reproduction pieces are. First of all, finding a "mid year boneyard" is about like the search for the "holy grail". Finding a Corvette boneyard that has some mid-year pieces will be problem enough. Much of the usable mid year body parts have been heavily "mined" by now.

Pipers Corvette Specialties in Vermillion, IL has quite an inventory of used Corvette body parts of all years. The reason that they still have such an inventory is that "they've been saving theirs for after everyone else is out of theirs". They utilize a "pricing startegy" to acomplish this goal.

[Michael S.]

Re: Mid year corvette boneyards

Tony,

If your friend has a car that does no warrant the use/expense of afterrmarket or reproduction fiberglass, he certainly does not have a car worth rebuilding in the first place!

Midyear body tubs/hulls are hot right now and VERY expensive to purchase. Those "expensive" aftermarket fiberglass pieces are CHEAP when you compare what the same part/piece will bring in original glass. Besides, all you find used in midyear boneyard is just that, old broken junk. When you piece together old used fiberglass from junked cars, you just transfer the final appearance from that junk donor car to your finished car. 6 months to 1 year later a car rebuilt with junk fiberglass parts will look just like the original donor car, JUNK!

Buy high quality reproduction fiberglass or sell this basket case and go buy a good car. By the way, there are still quite of few people with LOTS of junk midyears sitting in the woods rotting away. Those cars are still sitting there because the cost of restoration STILL exceeds the final value of the completed car. As high as prices are now, there are still lots of old "bones" that are not worth rebuilding. Let's hope your friends car is not one of those disasters!