<VV> Re: vv diff between Corsa and Monza

[Tony Underwood]

At 05:21 hours 12/20/2005, Norman C. Witte wrote:

>snip
>
>  The lower  grill piece on
> > the 500 and monza
> > (in 1965) was unadorned and had  a pair of small grille
> > openings stamped into
> > the center parts of  the lower section. The whole section was
> > painted body
> > color, including the  stamped portions.
>
>I always understood that the grille area on the Monza where the Corsa
>inserts would otherwise be found was painted silver on the Monza.  Chuck
>Armer used to have a low mileage '65 madeira maroon Monza convertible, and I
>believe that the insert area was painted silver on his convertible.  I
>recall that the car did experience some pretty serious collision damage and
>was repaired and repainted, but my understanding was that the silver was
>correct.
>
>Anyone out there own an original paint '65 Monza?
>
>Norm Witte



Been there done that.   A  buddy and I parted out several  '65 Vairs 
and one of them presented a bit of a problem with "factory" equipment.

One, a very ragged '65 convertible,  was something my buddy picked up 
for a song and a dance since it had flunked a safety inspection 
(rotted floors and front crossmember) and the girl who had it didn't 
wanna mess around with it.   Faded factory maroon paint, black 
interior rather worn, top patched with black cloth tape of some sort, 
but it ran well (110/PG) and drove OK.   Also had some rather severe 
rust holes in the front fender doglegs and around the wheel well lips 
in back.   I recall the deck lids being OK as were the doors but the 
other sheet metal had issues.   Still, it was a decent parts car so 
it got parted out.  The original paint was still fairly decent on the 
sides but the paint on the tops of the deck lids was worn thin enough 
to sport a patina of surface rust.    The original rear grill was 
there, looked as it had never been off the car, and it had no silver 
paint on the grill areas like I'd always seen on '65 Monza rear 
grills, and this car had never been repainted.   No silver on the 
grill.    I brought this up once before and someone else mentioned 
that a '65 Monza in the family that had been purchased new also 
didn't have any silver paint on the rear grill mesh area.

Evidently a few '65 Monzas got out the door with rear grills not 
painted silver.

Either that or someone coincidentally swapped them for non-silver 
painted grills at the dealer before the cars were sold, which I 
consider to be rather unlikely.



tony..