Just curious..............Anyone here with a widebody C3, ala Greenwood, Ecklers, etc...............

 Sorry guys, not familiar with either.

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That pic is of our club presidents car. It's based off of a '77 I believe.  

I know of 2, 1 is a turbo kit. both are just sitting behind a body shop here in Atlanta been there for 10 years.

DavefromArizona is the resident wagon Guru. He did have two of them at one time...not sure how many he has now, but I'm sure he still has "Cherry Love".



We also used to have a member with an old Greenwood works car. Can't for the life of me remember his name, tho. The car was on display at the NCM for a while.

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I'm working on my second one.

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I know a guy Andy that has a greenwood & it might be on a 78. He was the president of the NNCC  corvette Club in Delaware for a few years. If I remember right the car was white & large.

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Too bad there's not an easy way to know how Daytona widebody's were ever built. There was one for sale at the Mecum auction here in Florida in Jan. Not sure if it sold or where it went, if it did. At the same show was one of the original 5 race ready cars made by Greenwood. I'm sure it was going for a pretty hefty pricetag.

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Procketus, could you get the specs on those wheels your Club President has on his Daytona? I presently have 17 inch Torque Thrust II's on my Daytona but am thinking or going bigger. The brand new tires I have on it have begun to dry rot since it was sitting under a tarp for 10 plus years. So if I need new tires, it's a good time to look for different wheels. Thx...

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There is a 1976 wide body DAYTONA conversion here in Ontario. It's on kijiji.ca in a town called Hawkesbury. The car was built in the tacky eighties and has some crazy spoilers and such on it. He's looking for 34k...for a LONG time. I also have a set of the pontoon flares, never installed, from the 70's that I'm going to be making molds from.

Yeah, you definitely have to be careful with the paint job, striping and other mods that take the look of the body from race car to gaudy. Regardless what you do, though... it still says 80's. Mine is getting closer to getting on the road, but if I ever walk out to the garage and look at the car and it reminds me of too many nights at the Disco, you'll see it on Ebay....

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Not a wide body but my buddy Sheldon has a interesting story of his ownership of a Greenwood wagon.

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New guy here in North GA. I would be interested to know if those 2 in Atlanta behind the shop are available. I am looking at getting a wide body 78-82 Corvette at some point. It will be my first Corvette I hope. Missed one on Craigslist Atlanta last month.

Man that thing is butt ugly.  The '67 scoop and the over sized '64 side gills need to go.



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     Everybody has different feelings about my Cherry Love, but as I always say, you build your the way you like it, this is the way i like mine.  BTW, they are not oversized side gills, what is on the fenders are a kit that is/was sold in most aftermarket catalogs, just called side vents.  See how many places carried them, must have been a bit of a market, i know i didnt buy the only ones.
   Funny you should mention the hood, getting that 67 scoop on the there was the hardest part of the job, it took the guy, a professional fiberglass man, more than 40 hours to cut and mold it on, and i have never had anybody who has seen it in person think it looks bad.   The usual word used is "mean".  You may have missed that it has louvers down the top of it?
    The majority of the people who knock Cherry Love are the local vette club purists, who think that the only good vette is a totally original one.  Since mine is just a daily 75  done up, i don't see where it mattered what was done to the body.  If it were rare or low milage or collectable, i could see knocking it.
    I do hope, Gary, that your Vette makes you as happy as Cherry Love does me


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Sorry, I didn't catch where that was your car.  If you like it, great.  

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Greenwood wide-body up for auction at the Barrett Jackson sale in Phoenix this January.

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There is a 1973 Corvette Widebody for sale on Ebay right now....ends in three days.....item # 301401408054........it is located in Indiana and his buy-it-now is $ 15,900......if you hurry you can look at it on Ebay.

Thanks for the heads up about the one one ebay and coming up on auction.  I am sure I will find one one day. Missed on here in ATL a few weeks ago.

Making some progress on my 1980 wideBody... 

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Wow, these bring back some memories.  Spent a few years in SoCal doing these conversions, used the Can Am flare kits from Eckler's back then.  They were actually pretty quality parts and installed well.  Still bothered me a bit to whack up a cherry Corvette to put these kits on them though.

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   WOW!  In my neck of the woods, you'd need to hang a red flag off the back for the distance from the tail lights! 

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Yeah, my first Ecklers Daytona Wide Body conversion was done to a perfect 1978 Yellow Anniversary model. I hated to do it, but it was the only Vette I had and the kit showed up out of nowhere... so I figured it was destiny.

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I have a 1970  big block coupe that was done in cali in the mid to late 70's. It looks to follow the lines of the 74 and the whole interior besides the seats were updated too. Even has the javelina corp digital gauges. 

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