[enio45]

to start, NOS ones have been bringing north of 2K up to 2500 - 2800 depending on availability and what your going to use it for.

Ussed ones depending on condition IMO should bring mim 1500 (needs work) to 2K - 2100 very nice)

It is hard to justify one unless your doing a yenko or maybe a copo car, or Z car.

With that kind of investment - a Z/28 might be marginal to get a new or used one unless the $$ you put into it does not matter to you - then to be technically correct, you would buy one for the car.

Ones that need some work due to cracks are not a big deal - they can be repaired and you will never know it and if you use the right stuff, it will be stronger at the repair than normal.

Also what to look for is the warpage on the top edge and lower edge....one that has been the car a long time take a set due to the heat and mounting points that don't give....so they will show some waviness on edge. I like the ones taken out early on - they tend to be nice and straight.

Hope that helps......

It is not to say you cannot score a nice one every now and then - but IMO this is where the market is.

Last point - reason you don't see many silver grills is that they have been replaced over the yrs due to front end damage, cracking the grill and replacing what GM had on the shelf as the substitute number. The parts book dropped the silver grill in a yr or two of production and went to the black and said to paint as needed.