<VV> Weights of Early and Late

[Bruce Schug]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Smitty Smith wrote:

>
>    From: Jeff Wilson
> Does anyone know off the top of their head the weight difference
> between and early coupe and a late?
> CJ Wilson
> -----------------------------------------
>  Smitty Says;  Yes jeff, I do.

Smitty,

In 1991 I worked on a revision of the Economy Run Rules. I devised a  
class system that would have divided the vehicles according to their  
weight as opposed to the typical "early" and "late" split. It would  
have been a more fair way to do it. The powers-that-be disagreed with  
me, saying that people just want to divide classes by earlies and lates.

A by-product of this research was a list of vehicle weights which came  
from Larry Claypool. I don't know if these are "curb weights",  
"shipping weights" or what but I believe them to be accurate and  
comparable. These are for 1964 earlies and 1967 lates. Other years  
will vary a bit, but not much. The weight of the AC cars was computed  
by adding 200 pounds.

I hope the formatting of the figures below posts. If it doesn't, I'll  
e-mail you a PDF directly.

'64	500		2dr		2365
'64	Monza	2dr		2445
'64	Monza	4dr		2470
'67	500		2dr		2525
'67	Monza	2dr		2555
'64	Monza	conv		2555
'64	500		2drAC	2565
'67 	Monza	4dr		2605
'64	Monza	2drAC	2645
'64	Monza	4drAC	2670
'67	500		2drAC	2725
'67	Monza	2drAC	2755
'64	Monza	convAC	2755
'67	Monza	conv		2780
'67	Monza	4drAC	2805
'67	Monza	convAC	2980

Bruce






Bruce W. Schug
Treasurer, CORSA South Carolina
Greenville, SC
Stock Corvair Group Member
bwschug at charter.net

CORSA member since 1980

'67 Monza. "67AC140"