Original-looking interior, but wrong trim code? How? And the auxi top?

[youwish2bme]

I don't understand the deception part of this.. If the trim tag says one thing and the interior is different what is the chance that the tag is wrong? It seems that unless the seller is representing this as original then I still say it's a mood point. On non matching cars who cares what the trim plate says. It's like asking if the motor is correct but it doesn't have the VIN stamped in it.. I hope I'm not causing a problem, it's just that I don't understand the relevance of all this other than to determine how much to reduce the price of the car by. If it's a numbers car the deduct would be the cost to return it to the factory color if it's not a numbers car then if it's in good shape I would think there would be no deduct from the car. It's all about how original you want to pay to be.. I'm not a NCRS nazi (not saying the NCRS is bad, think Senfield aka Soup nazi) but my car is correct per colors and style but not what the trim tag says. Will anyone notice without looking at the trim tag.. Nope.. Do I care.. Nope. Would I like to have a correct car.. Yep.. Next one.... This cloak and dagger approach might not get you the answers that you require so just come out with it.. Dave..

 

[rwd]

I don't understand the deception part of this.. If the trim tag says one thing and the interior is different what is the chance that the tag is wrong? It seems that unless the seller is representing this as original then I still say it's a mood point.

Sellers can be honest and wrong or mistaken, but that's no consolation if you buy something that is not what they believe it to be or what it seems. Collectibles often change hands frequently, and sometimes buyers later discover issues; sometimes they don't. Rarely, in my experience, does either one disclose everything they know before sale. It's the purchaser's job to be thorough. No problem, Dave.

This thread is not about me. Whether I buy the car depends on a number of things that have yet to be determined. I want the car, but I'm not going to buy it if I'm not comfortable with it. I'm not going to revisit this issue.

Again, I do have insights that I haven't posted and almost certainly will not. They aren't relevant to the information I'm seeking.

 

[c5vetter]

based on your last - we have provided you the ammo - interior HAS BEEN CHANGED! auxilliary top, PROBABLY not original to car! now, you decide if you want to buy or not - your decision alone.

 

[ctjackster]

rwd - for what it's worth, I add my vote for "prior owner exercised his freedom of choice and changed the interior color" - the most frequent target for such things is the standard black vinyl interior. It could be worse, you could have a bogus trim tag purportedly for your year but with an interior color code only available in the folowing year, an obvious attempt to create trim tag documentation for a current trim configuration (true story). As it is, your car (is it your car?) can be brought back to match the "std" trim tag without too much fuss, if some sort of originality judging is in your plans.

 

[youwish2bme]

rwd, I hope that you haven't taken that the wrong way man, I wasn't trying to be rude or anything..Sometimes it's hard to decifer the forum. I just think that it's an odd point.. If the trim tag says it should be something different I doubt that that the tag was mis-stamped originally. It is much to easy to change from one color interior to another and relatively cheap... Door panels,seats,carpet,sunvisors,seat backs and the conv mech covers can all be bought and or dyed for around 2k. So it really just appears that this vette has been changed as suspected above.. Dave..

 

[rwd]

I understand completely, and I've heard about the availability of the bogus trim plates.

After doing some additional work, I now have a better idea of the interior and how it relates to the rest of the car, but other questions remain.

I'd like to thank everybody for their help.

 

[JohnZ]

It's highly unlikely that it's a "trim tag mistake"; more likely it was just an interior color change - people did that/do that all the time based on their personal tastes. The only time an interior color change becomes an issue is in NCRS judging or when it comes time to sell the car and the potential buyer knows about trim tag codes and wants a "correct" car; the other 99.9% of people looking at it would never pick up the difference. It is a "flag" of sorts, however, to take a look at other things that may have been changed as well.

 

[rwd]

Exactly.

 

[c5vetter]

well, if you knew that it "was possible" the interior had been changed, why did you get so defensive when we all suggested that was probably the case? you then say you knew there were other areas that were questionable but you don't want to divulge them - sounds to me like you already bought the car and are now trying to justify to someone you didn't make a mistake

 

[rwd]

I don't consider redirecting a thread that is being deflected off-topic defensive. If I've somehow offended you, I apologize. I gave my reasons for everything in the posts above, and they haven't changed.

I haven't mentioned the additional areas because the conclusions I reach are mine alone. I'm not going to jeopardize someone else's car or its sale with conjecture that may or may not be accurate or meaningful to anyone else. I have explained the situation to the seller, and that's the end of it.