[SCG] FW: <VV> Pin Stripes on 65 Corsas

Sun Nov 25 15:57:47 EST 2007

Here are some of the replies I received concerning Pin Stripes on the '65 
Corsa.  Also in my original e-mail, I mis-typed the date of manufacture for 
my car as May '66 where it should have been '65.  That's what happens when 
you use a Sun keyboard all day at work and then come home to your XP 
computer.  The spacing between the keys in the Sun is a lot different than 
my home computer, so I tend to make a lot of typo's that are usually caught 
by spell checker.

The few people saying their Corsa came without a pinstripe, makes me wonder 
if it's possible that only Corsa's made at the Willow Run plant had 
pinstripes, while those from L.A. came without?  I remember doing a survey 
for the '65 Corvairs, that asked the color of the pinstripe.  Would there be 
some way to cross-reference these results and see if the L.A. Corsa's came 
without pin stripes?

Russ Moorhouse
'65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
Group Corvair Member
Kent Island, MD

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1.  You're right , ALL '65 Corsa's had pinstripes.

harry yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage

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2. Russ, that was my understanding also that all '65 Corsas had a pin stripe 
and I remember when they came out and I can't recall any of them not having 
a pinstripe.  We have  2 of them in our family and they both had them at one 
time.   Ken Clark

KCVAIR
66 CORSA CN W/AIR
65 CORSA CP

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3. My '65 Corsa convertible had the original paint job on it when I bought 
it; NO pinstripes.

Scotty from Hollyweird

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4. It is my understanding that the pinstripe was standard on all 1965 Corsas
(usually matching the interior color) but that it could be deleted if the
person who ordered it so requested.

Ken Maxwell
Louisville, KY

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5. My brother's black on black 65 Corsa had a red pinstripe on it...very
classy look by the way; seems like there were too many cars like that
around to just go by interior color so there must have been some other
formula as well.

Mark Noakes

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6. My early 65 Corsa had pin stripes.

If you look at the early brochures for 65, you will see the Corsas did come 
with pin stripes. Both versions of the brochure are identical except for the 
pin stripe in the photos and the pin stripe text in the Corsa section.

On the cover of the early brochure you see the familiar yellow Corsa but it 
has a black pin stripe. Open to the Corsa section you see the white Corsa 
convertible, red interior and a red pin stripe. The next page shows the 
Evening Orchid coupe with a white pin stripe. My Maroon Corsa had a red pin 
stripe.

The text in the first paragraph goes on to describe the Corsa package, which 
reads in part, "a silver-painted rear cove area; and a color-keyed body 
outline stripe."

So somewhere along the line Chevy dropped the pin stripe on the 65 Corsas. 
The later brochure looks the same as the early brochure but the pin stripes 
are gone along with the text reference in the Corsa section.

I had both brochures, sold the later version on eBay, but kept the early pin 
stripe brochure, because I knew this type of question would come up someday.

Roy - Bayshore

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> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:26:37 -0800
> From: "Kent Sullivan" <kentsu at corvairkid.com>
> Subject: [SCG] FW: <VV> Pin Stripes on 65 Corsas
> To: "'Stock Corvair Group'" <scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com>
> Cc: 'Russ Moorhouse' <corvair65 at verizon.net>
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> This is just the sort of question for SCG. Please include Russ (on Cc: 
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> in your replies.
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> --Kent
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> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Russ Moorhouse
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:09 PM
> To: VV
> Subject: <VV> Pin Stripes on 65 Corsas
>
> I went and looked at the Corsa Convert that was for sale and read the 
> emails
>
> to the seller.  In there someone mentioned that pin stripes were an 
> option,
> however from everything I have seen and read they were standard on the 65
> Corsa.  The sales brochure states that pin stripes were part of the Corsa
> package, along with all the other items that made the Corsa different in
> '65.  I looked in a Corvair book at a window sticker and picture of a 65
> Corsa which had pin stripes on it and there was nothing there listed on 
> the
> window sticker for a pin stripe.  This was a picture of the car the day 
> the
> author bought it.  On Gary's Corsa site he states: "During the '65 model
> year, the Corsa had a contrasting pin-stripe running around the nose to 
> the
> rear cove area on each side, positioned just below the belt-line."  And 
> from
>
> what I recall reading elsewhere, though I can't find it now, it was 
> supposed
>
> to be 1/8 inch below the belt line should you ever repaint the car.
>
> The original owner of my 65 Corsa told me about the difficult time he had
> finding someone who would hand paint the pin stripe on the car after he 
> had
> it painted. Everyone wanted to use tape instead of hand painting it.  The
> pin stripe on mine is not very accurate at maintaining the 1/8 inch 
> spacing.
>
> So who is correct?  Did some '65 Corsas come without pin stripes?  My car
> was built in May of '66, so if it were a mid production change, then it
> happened after that.
>
>
> Russ Moorhouse
> '65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
> Group Corvair Member
> Kent Island, MD
>
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