<VV> Red vent knobs, red instrument cluster

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

Ah! That has cleared up something that has been mystifying me for years - I 
have always been puzzled at that pic, and now that Mark (in the other email) 
has told me that 500s have the chrome instrument bezel rings, it must 
definitely be a 500. It just doesn't look like one to me, and there are 
almost no other 500 pix in the brochure!

But thanks to both of you for clearing up a long-standing mystery!

Cheers

Alan

P.S. I always paint my crackle finish dashes with the colour of the rest of 
the interior anyway, because I think the silver looks cheap and nasty, but 
if you paint it with satin finish paint in the same colour as the seats and 
doors it looks really nice and resembles vinyl because of the crackle 
finish. It takes a while to mask off the silver lines round the edge and the 
dials, but it's worth it!



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: <airvair at earthlink.net>; "Alan and Clare Wesson" 
<alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Red vent knobs, red instrument cluster


> So far as I can tell, there is no horn ring on the steering wheel, just 
> the
> center horn button which - if I'm interpreting the picture correctly - 
> just
> barely shows on the left edge.  Where's BH - master of Stock items?  I 
> agree
> that the "white glove" picture is a 500.
>
> Alan, maybe you can find it and get the clock.  It will fit a Monza!
>
> Later, JR
>
> CCE CORSA CORVANANTICS SCG member
> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140
> "Keep the Love Alive"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <airvair at earthlink.net>
> To: "Alan and Clare Wesson" <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>;
> <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Red vent knobs, red instrument cluster
>
>
>> Alan,
>>
>> No, the first pic in the first listing is definately a stock 500
>> instrument
>> panel. Look closely and you'll see the no-chrome 500 steering wheel. And
>> yes, even the 500's had the "chrome" rings around the instruments. All LM
>> Corvair dashes were basically the same, with a black plastic
>> under-structure and a stamped overlay of sheet aluminum. The aluminum was
>> taped off around the instruments (the rings) and painted either wrinkle
>> silver (black on Corsa models and later years) or interior color (for the
>> 500's).
>>
>> On '65's only, they also had a "pinstripe" surrounding the entire
>> instrument panel. With the Monza's painted silver, it doesn't show very
>> well. But on the Corsa models, it shows up.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>>
>>> [Original Message]
>>> From: Alan and Clare Wesson <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
>>> Subject: Re: <VV> Red vent knobs, red instrument cluster
>>>
>>> Someone has kindly posted one on the Internet:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/brochures/Chev/1965/Corvair/pages/65corva
>> ir09_jpg.htm
>>>
>>> If you look, in the pic the dash has the silver rings round the dials, 
>>> so
>> it
>>> can't be a 500 (right?).
>>>
>>> However, in this pic:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/brochures/Chev/1965/Corvair/pages/65corva
>> ir11_jpg.htm
>>>
>>> The overview of the car has silver inserts.
>>>
>>> Curiouser and curiouser...
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>
>>
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