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[Loren L.]

This is in the form of a Public Service Announcement on a Technical Discussion Board. For newcomers, parts were once sold by Chevy dealers using "Parts Books", actual compilations of #s by groups and applications and printed on "paper", which often included "illustrations". For example, an August 1968 "Parts Book" might have an entry in "Group 5.871" of part # 3725539, described as an "ornament" for 56-62 Corvette wheelcovers resembling a two bar knockoff. In September of 1978, the same group would list an "ornament" for the same wheelcovers as 3964510 which would actually be the CENTER section of #3725539, the "two bar" having succumbed to regulatory pressure on behalf of armadillos or some such.
Returning to your monitor, you should be aware that eBay #302310121624 is making available at least one set of #3964510 Center sections for the nominal sum of $399 plus shipping from a benevolent dealer in the State of Washington. Your tolerance is appreciated.

[Jim D.]

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A.S. is well known in this area. I'll leave it at that.

[Tom B.]

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Those 4510s would make nice ornaments for trophies but they have no place on any Corvette wheel cover. I wouldn't go more than $20. for the set.

[Ronald L.]

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Kinda confusing use of Websters - what's the point?
Whining on the price of a set of ornaments?
Flagging a Corvette Parts seller as not really being transparent?
Guys - are you in the free capital market or a 100% controlled society from so continent to the west of LA or the the east of NYC - to use this same twisted form of communication?

If you don't like the price:
A - move on
B - drop your own IRA retirement $$$ into the tooling to make a reproduction and try to make money selling them for the suggested price of $20.
C- Educate with clear language (of your choice - but clear) that the parts in question were never Factory assembled to a Corvette - ever!

You know - I hope - with your "less than or low 4 digit NCRS member numbers" that it was the Nader era of "safety" assaults on the transportation industry that in part took the spinners off, and not just your choice here - but all of them.
So if you are an OEM selling parts - to people that "of Free Will" take their money and Buy them---what was your decision tree?
A- Instead of a part with spinners - send a note to all future customers they are not available due to lawyers winning?
B - make something close and supposedly safer?
C- fold the company?

the seller is real sharp - searching for the 3964510 doesn't bring them up on ebay so we should be safe anyway