<VV> '65 Monza 140hp

[Mark Corbin]

GM always has crate motors sitting at ready at the parts warehouse, just in
case. Number 5999 had a crate motor stuffed in it in less than a week's
time from build to delivery transpiring.

Also in '69, the dealer in Mansfield, Ohio ordered in just three Corvairs,
two Monzas typically equipped, and one 500 with NOTHING on it. Stripper
cars DID happen.

-Mark

> [Original Message]
> From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> '65 Monza 140hp
>
> At 02:38 PM 6/12/2010, J R Read_HML wrote:
> >I doubt that the dealers were supplied with a variety of engines for
"dealer
> >install".
>
> Of course not, wouldn't make much sense economically to sit on a 
> batch of crated engines waiting for someone to request a 
> swap.  ;)   But they would have had a crate engine or two on hand to 
> handle quickly any warranty issues with a failed engine etc.
>
> >However, a car could be ordered FROM THE FACTORY with a number of
> >different power train options.
>
> ..like the '69 Monza here with AM/FM, tele wheel, 140hp engine, HD 
> suspension, bumper guards, quick steer, etc.   GM didn't build them 
> like that without asking.   Neither did the dealers...
>
> But dealers could and would add extras to a car if the customer 
> wanted them.  Not real sure that would extend all the way to swapping 
> an engine, but money talks.   Likewise, a lack of money also 
> talks.  The blue '67 500 coupe here has absolutely NO options at all 
> and appears to have been ordered as the cheapest possible Corvair 
> anyone could buy.
>
> All it came with was a heater.   Still has no radio or antenna.   Or 
> much of anything else not required to meet DOT regs.    (it's my 
> understanding that regs require the heater so as to provide a 
> functioning defroster for the windshield)
>
> Such was not the case in 1960... got a '60 Monza coupe, 
> heater-delete.   No defroster.
>
> tony.. 
>