[SCG] eBay Motors (item 230449142879 end time Mar-2

[Paul Steinberg]

  The one big thing that I did notice was in the engine compartment.  If you 
look closely at the area just to the outside of where the rear lid hinges 
are, you should see the plastic rectangular clean out cover.  On 
convertibles of this era, this is an area that is prone to rust.  The simple 
fix is to just patch over it, and brush some seam sealer on top of the 
patch.  This is the first place that I look when a car is represented as 
being rust free.  The reason that it is never properly fixed is that it is 
an almost impossible location to work unless you remove the engine.  On the 
other side of this factory clean out hole is a baffle that keeps the road 
debris from getting to the top of the quarter panel.  Problem is that it is 
open in the front and being horizontal, it holds a lot of debris that will 
eventually rust out the baffle and the inside corner of the engine 
compartment.  So much for this being a rust free car as claimed!!!
I doubt that many Corvair owners ever realized what that cover was installed 
for at the factory.  I removed mine when I bought my 1964 back in 1982, only 
out of curiosity.  I found that it was packed with fine Georgia silt.  I 
cleaned it well and did my best to treat the metal so it wouldn't rust, and 
it is still solid till this day..
Paul in CT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Newell" <chevrobilia at juno.com>
To: <Wrsssatty at aol.com>
Cc: <scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [SCG] eBay Motors (item 230449142879 end time Mar-2


> Bill,
> This is a nice car indeed, but if you look closely you'll see it's a 65-66 
> Corvair AM/FM radio that someone shoehorned in. Note that the dealer order 
> worksheet lists only a "PB Radio" which the car probably came with from 
> Willow Run. Either the dealer or someone else put the 65-66 radio in it so 
> it could indeed be "dealer installed". Notice how the die cast chrome dial 
> housing is angled out at the top compared to the bottom, and that it also 
> has a gap at the top that would normally be covered by the face plate when 
> the radio was installed in a late model, which it was made for.
> Bill, I think you should look at the 64 AM/FM question the other way 
> around. There is absolutely no mention of an AM/FM radio in any known 
> Chevrolet literature as a factory installed option or as a dealer 
> installed accessory in 64. Not in consumer lit, not in dealer materials, 
> not in factory internal documents, nothing. Now, I'm not saying a few 
> couldn't have been installed in Engineering cars or as test cars in the 
> field, and I never say never. But there is no record that's ever been 
> found of any such installation.
> So, I think the proper way to phrase the question is "To my knowledge, it 
> has never been proved that an AM/FM radio was ever available on '64 
> Corvairs."
> And putting a 65-6 AM/FM in a 64 doesn't count.
> Also, there's no way that the owner could know the car was built on May 
> 4,1964. There's also nothing on the Fisher Body plate that indicates which 
> shift the body was built in. The "E" means the fifth week, not the shift. 
> Since there's no photo of the body plate in the listing, we can't see the 
> complete Fisher build date (which only shows month and week). So I went to 
> the Chevrolet production records and they show that this VIN 253383 was 
> built the last week of April 1964 (4E) rather than the first week of May 
> as the seller states.
> It's a beautiful car and it should bring a good price. It could always be 
> put back to the 64 AM PB radio...no harm done there.
> Dave
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Wrsssatty at aol.com
> To: chevrobilia at juno.com
> Subject: Check out Chevrolet : Corvair : eBay Motors (item 230449142879 
> end time Mar-2
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:54:27 EDT
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>
> Click here: Chevrolet : Corvair : eBay Motors (item 230449142879 end time 
> Mar-20-10 15:35:32 PDT)  To my knowledge, a definitive answer has yet to 
> be given as to whether an AM/FM radio was ever available on '64 Corvairs 
> (I think the consensus has been probably not).  This car, is claimed to 
> sport an AM/FM radio installed by the dealer.  What do you think? ~Bill
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