[FC] Rain gutters on A pillar what year?

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Subject: <VV> Re Greenbrer for sale now what year? 

Further comments at the bottom: 

> previously From: Joe Hennerfeind <hennerfeind_joe at yahoo.com> 

> Found this in my searches today.? I emailed the ad since it doesn't   
> give details or price.? They are asking $5000 and it looks like it   
> might be worth it from the few photos they sent me.? Not my ad, just   
> forwarding the   
> info.http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/3467441443.html 

> previously From: Paul Fox <paulvair at yahoo.com> 

> Group, Just looked the truck over. It's been sitting 8 years and   
> doesn't run. The body is in fairly good shape except rust is   
> starting to bubble up from repairs. There are patch panels in it but   
> the body work was fairly good. Plus it has a luggage rack on it.?It   
> has a manual choke so it is most likely a 61 sold as a 62 as was my   
> Rampside. It's a PG trans.The engine appears to be correct for the   
> truck except someone put a mag fan on it. (ZB code). It has some   
> mild custom work done to the inside including what looks like a   
> folding rear seat. The odometer shows 1600 some miles so most likely   
> 101,600. He said the truck was in Canada then Iowa and now Indy.   
> He's moving once again so they want to sell. Would be a nice cruiser   
> with a little TLC. Just thought I'd pass this along. 
> Paul Fox , Not looking to buy a Greenbrier. 

> previously From: LonzoVair at aol.com 

> Paul, 
> It is a '62, because the '61s didn't have the rain gutter on the "A" 
> pillar, and this one has it. 
> Also, the '61 Greenbriers had a key lock mechanism on the side door, and 
> this one doesn't. 
> Later, 
> Lonzo 

> previously From: Vairtec Corporation <Vairtec at optonline.net> 
> 
> Lonzo, I could be quite wrong about this, but it has long been my 
> understanding that the addition of the rain gutter was a mid-year 
> 1961 change, and so while it's absence definitely identifies a 
> vehicle as being a '61, it's presence does not automatically indicate 
> a later year.  Anyone out there with ironclad knowledge on this point? 
> 
> --Bob 

New Comment-------------------------- 
I've added this to the collection of information I have for the Stock   
Corvair Group. Not being an expert of FCs I can't answer the question   
but am also distributing this amoung the SCG mail list. Other sources   
that might help answer the question are: 
-Confirmation of the serial number (61 or 62 model year?) regardless   
of the registration year the vehicle has presently and input from   
other 61 & 62s with information on the build date and the A pillar   
rain gutter. 
-Sales literature 
-Factory Change Orders Engineering or Production 
-Information in the CPF 
-other GM documentation 

All help is appreciated 

Stan East 
Vice President Stock Corvair Group 






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