<VV> 1966 standard black belts in turquoise colored interior

[Rick Loving]

I am seeing a small pattern in both the Turquoise and Bronze interior vairs.

Bryan, I would like to see the trim tag for the build date for your vair.

I had had an strong response to show that GM did install black belts in low
production interiors as a standard practice.  I feel very strongly about
this.

The other thing I have observed is a VERY small number of responses (2 very
positives, one Bronze and one Turquoise and a couple who really thought they
remembered a bronze and or turquoise standard belt but had no evidence) 

Bryan's statement of Turquoise belts can hopefully help through his trim
tag.

If his car was an earlier production I would hypothesize that there was a
very limited amount of special color belts run, probably a split of standard
and deluxe colors and when this supply ran out the default color was black.

The belts are almost always dated a year ahead of the car as the belt manf
made them up in advance during the end the previous model year.

This would make sense as GM could only guess at the number of Special order
orders going to deluxe from standard belt offerings.

I am going to try and contact the seller of the black belted car on Ebay and
see if his build date is later in the model year.

Rick Loving

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Blackwell [mailto:bryan at skiblack.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 2:13 PM
To: 66vairman at comcast.net
Cc: Rick Loving
Subject: Re: <VV> 1966 standard black belts in turquoise colored interior

Gentlemen,

I don't know if this is enough info to really help (or if you already  
know this), but I'm fairly sure the '65 Monza coupe we had was the  
darker turquoise exterior, white seats and door panels, turquoise  
carpet and deluxe turquoise seat belts.  I probably still have the  
belts and body tag if you really want some further info.

--Bryan

On May 4, 2008, at 9:48 PM, 66vairman at comcast.net wrote:

> Rick:
>
> Another 1966 Corvair convertible on e-bay for sale with turquoise  
> colored interior and standard GM black plastic head seats belts.   
> Item#330232245089.  Further evidence per our previous discussions  
> to conclude that GM did not produce standard colored belts for low  
> volume colored interiors.
>
> Tom