[SCG] Were gasoline heaters really an option after 1960?

[Bill Hubbell]

Thanks, Dave.  I figured either you or Larry would have the details.  

 

It is interesting that they stopped the gas heater in 1962 but did not
bother changing the trunk until 1963; I am referring to the removal of the
hole in the right rear corner of the trunk.

  _____  

From: Dave Newell [mailto:chevrobilia at juno.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:41 PM
To: Wrsssatty at aol.com
Cc: whubbell at umich.edu; scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com
Subject: Re: [SCG] Were gasoline heaters really an option after 1960?

 

Hi Bill,
Sorry I didn't jump in earlier but thought you guys would have figured it
out by now. 

Here's the heater availability info you need:

Cars:

1960: Gas Heater available as factory installed option or dealer installed
accessory kit

1961: Gas Heater available dealer installed only.
           Direct Air Heater available factory or as dealer installed kit

1962: Air Heater now standard equipment unless heater deletion option
specified.
           No Gas Heater available (although a leftover 1961 accessory kit
could be fitted if air heater delete was  ordered but wouldn't be stock)

Yes it shows the gas heater in some 62 accessory literature but there was no
kit that year.

Trucks: Gas Heater available 1961-1965 as factory installed RPO or dealer
installed kit.
             Direct Air Heater available 1961-1965 as factory installed RPO
or dealer installed kit.

Dave Newell

 

 For 1962 it wasn't available at all...the direct air heater beame standard
equipment that year unless you specified te heater delete RPO 610.

In Greenbriers and trucks, both the direct air heater and gas heater were
available 61-65 as either factory installed options or dealer installe
accessories (but you couldn't have both on one vehicle!).

Dave Newell



---------- Original Message ----------
From: Wrsssatty at aol.com
To: whubbell at umich.edu, scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com
Subject: Re: [SCG] Were gasoline heaters really an option after 1960?
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:32:26 EST

In a message dated 12/3/2009 11:53:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
whubbell at cox.net writes:

Does  anybody have documentation from the era (dealer accessory brochures,
etc.)  which could shed some light on this subject?
I have checked my sales lit. collection and here's what I've found:

1.  The '61 Custom Features brochure (375M-RS37 P&A) lists a  gasoline 
heater as an option.

2.  The '61 sales brochure mentions "2 KINDS OF HEATERS!" and goes on  to 
describe the direct air heater as well as the gasoline heater.   Elsewhere
in 
the brochure only the "forced air" heater is described as a  
factory-installed option.

3.  The '62 Custom Features brochure also mentions the gasoline  heater.

4.  The '62 sales brochure lists the gasoline heater under "Options  and 
Custom Features" and goes on to say; "Check with your Chevrolet  dealer."

5.  A later revision of the '62 sales brochure shows no changes in  regard 
to mention of the gasoline heater.

If I may reach a conclusion on the basis of the above, alone, I would  
conclude that the gasoline heater was a dealer only option for '61 and  '62.

~Bill Stanley
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