<VV> 1960 authenticity/Grubser has it pegged

[HallGrenn at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/25/2009 10:07:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rgubser at zoomtown.com writes:


Lots  of differences between '60 and '61. Most importantly, what is the 
VINon the  title? Does it match the plate on the driver's door jamb? Is the 
plate  spot-welded on as the factory did it, or has it been replaced with 
rivets or  screws? if the car has heater ducts in the rocker panels it's not a 
'60. The  battery on a '60 was originally mounted on the passenger side. A '60 
will have  a unique gas tank with a screwed-in sender unit. There a lots of 
other  '60-only features, so it shouldn't be too hard to prove if it's  
real.

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rgubser



Grubser has the differences I would check.  You'd have to be  really 
strange to change all these items to try to make the car a '60.  For  instance, 
the engine could have been switched, but no one is going to cut out a  hole 
for the battery box to move it to the passenger side like the '60.   Wheels, 
hubcaps could be iffy, but Fisher Body did the changes not someone on  the 
final assembly line.
 
Bob