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

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Maybe that was a project that had to wait until they got a 'round tuit.
Being a retired GM diemaker I can attest to that often being the case.

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: Bill Hubbell <whubbell at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [SCG] Were gasoline heaters really an option after 1960?
>
> 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] 
> 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.
>
>  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
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:32:26 EST
>
> 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