Then it must be original because your description describes it just as it appears. Just got done looking at your Vette on the past "C3 of the week." It looks like such a sweet ride for a gent. in the UK. I bet you turn a ton of heads with that car, especially in red. I have never seen a hood with the little hood scoops on them like yours before. I usually don't go for such things, usually because they are so over-done here in the U.S., but I have to say yours look tasteful. Here in America, we tend to overdo things like hood scoops to the point that they look more like a toilet than a scoop. IT defeats the purpose when people notice the scoops over the car as a whole. Your car is quite nice. Makes me want to post pics of mine soon. Mine is completely stock with 39,000 original miles as near as I can determine from all the documentation. It is white with dark red interior that is half cloth half leather, vinyl. I wish I had all leather seats but I was happy to find this car as it is, so I won't complain much.

What did you pull the dash out for if you don't mind me asking? This is a practice I don't want to get into if I can help it. The only thing scarier would be getting into the doors, I hear that it is ugly in there.

CVT4ME

I'm totally with you on the horrors of extra hood scoops and all that B.S. Those were on her when i got her - goes back to the reason why my under hood light has been pulled off, when this new hood was put on.
I think a car with such great lines as this should be left un-molested, but i did think those little "nostrils" looked quite mean. OK, OK, they don't really do anything, I guess i could hook them up to the two snorkel intakes for a bit of ram-air action, but i think GMs intake system was designed that way for a reason, and it's probably best left as is. I think the general bonnet buldge is a bit higher than stock too, but I don't think it's enough to look "stoopid".
Unfortunately Britain too has its fair share of fools who think you can put a twin headlamp conversion and a neon light under your 1.2 litre hatchback to obtain instant cool... All you end up with is a sugar coated turd.
I'll put my hands up for criticism - my first car was a mk1 Ford fiesta XR2, painted bright dayglo orange. Despite the dubious colour I only ever modified it to actually go faster/stop better! I still have that car, and want to restore it someday - maybe a colour change would be in order though....

Completely forgot, you asked about the dash - I've been doing little faffy jobs to tidy my interior up, including repainting the silver stripes on the console/cluster, polishing plastic here and there, and a bit of wiring. It was much easier to pull things out and do them at my "leisure". I'll probably put a post together at some point on some of my work - seems like quite a few people are interested in getting those silver stripes back to life, and i've found quite a good method, if a little time consuming, that should be longer lasting than stock....Anyway more on that in another post, when i have time!

Its actually not too hard to get the dash in/out, it's just very time consuming and you end up with a lot of screws to remember the order of! Yep the windows are a bit of a pig, had mine out for a cleanup/readjust before now, the hardest part is getting the bloody glass out. I still haven't got the adjustment quite right, theres some special order you have to do it in, and i don't have the GM shop manual - next on my shopping list

Cheers!

Theo,

I just sent you a private e-mail containing pics of the underhood light. I was not sure how to post them here.

Cheers,
CVT4ME