Just picked up my first Z28 1992 Convertible,

 

Congrats on one of 1254. I saw a white 92 Z03 vert years ago that had black stripes. It was awesome and I think they look better with black stripes rather than red especially with the black top. My black vert is going to get white stripes. How many miles and what options does yours have and where did you get it?

 

The other side..

 

Its is pretty much stock 5.0 V8 179,000 miles posi rear, upgraded radio (would like to find original cd player it came with), just to have it. originally california car built by ASC.. was originally arctic white now pearle white, still learning what it has..

 

Congrats - and Enjoy!

 

Nice car man!

 

Why does it have white headlight buckets? Gm did some really strange things sometimes.

 

it was repainted and never had the buckets painted black again

 

I think when re painted pearl white they did the buckets also? Unless someone knows that some 92's came from factory not painted? I know door sticker says built late 1991 so is one of the earlier models. Maybe those didn't have the buckets painted?

 

Very clean! Looks well maintained.

 

I don't like the RS headlamp pockets, you gotta paint them black to give it that Z28 menacing look, Nice Droptop

 

Beautiful car, very clean. I would lose the bra as I had one on my car awhile back and it ended up scuffing the paint where it would rub. And I agree get the buckets back to black and you are golden. Great buy!

 

The bra is there because the plastic bumper was not painted very well and is spider webing allready. And yes have been thinking of returning headlight buckets back to black. My question now is it doesn't have the rpo code for heritage package or zo3, but has z28? Is a factory vert.(asc) By vin number. It was built late1991 could it have been originally white buckets? Before dicision's made? Only heritage tag is dash 25th anniversary?? Any thoughts welcomed as it has been re-painted maybe not put back together right?

 

All 92's got the 25th anniversary badge on the dash. Yours in not a heritage. Still rare though

 

All 92's got the 25th anniversary badge, even my RS says "RS 25th Anniversary". The z03 package was the stripes and the badge on the rear spoiler/decklid. RS and Z28 models could get z03, and not all Z28s were z03.

I think everything on the car looks correct except for the headlight buckets. If you get the bumper cover repainted just get the buckets black and it's perfect.

You can always get some satin black 3M vinyl (3m makes the best vinyls) and vinyl the headligth buckets. They sell small rolls of it fairly cheap on ebay. You can get enough to do the buckets for less than $50 and the high end, nice 3M stuff is fairly easy to work with. If you dont like it, you can peel it off. Although if the paint is a little rough on the bumper cover it might take the paint off with it. But if you get it repainted you can always just get it plain white and vinyl the buckets. Woudln't be super easy in the corners at the top but it wouldnt be that hard either.

 

so all Z28 had black buckets? for 1992

 

It's been reported to be less then 300 left out of the 1254, Seen it stated twice,

 

mine are red

 

All Z28s from 82-92 had black headlight buckets. That includes IROCs, since IROC's were just a lightly upgraded Z28, hence why they are "IROC-Z/28"s.

 

I never heard of GM forgetting to paint some of the buckets but that sounds about right. Dave McClellan signed a few of the first ZR-1s (plenum) actually the top of the LT5 and a few were signed by other important people and the people who bought them didn't know who they were and removed them. Dave McClellan was the second head corvette engineer after Zora retired around 74. Dave served from 74-96 or so. One 92 ZR1 has a brass plate under the plenum and that car has still not been identified. Lots of crazy stuff with every car line.