<VV> Hood and trunk lettering

Fri Nov 29 08:27:34 EST 2019

Your reasoning makes sense - I can see the problem with trying to 
polish around those letters. That is all the incentive I need to not 
replace them! But the fact that the indents of the letters are still 
visible - that makes little sense. How exactly could you achieve such a 
result even if you wanted to? You would need to block the surface after 
filling the holes, and frankly I don't think I could do it that 
accurately if I tried, so the holes disappear but the indents from the 
letters are still there. In any case, I would not want to try filling 
any holes without access to the back side - you would have to raise the 
surface or risk the plugs falling through!
The good news is I am in the middle of spraying the car so I'll see 
what appears when I rub that area down. I have the same situation front 
and rear BTW. That's fourteen holes to fill - as I said it's a lot of 
work for the P.O.!
We shall soon see!

On 2019-11-29 06:49, William Hubbell wrote:
> OK, so the car was built the last week of September 1963, which makes
> it a very early 1964 and it would definitely have had the push-in
> letters on the trunk lid (not the screw-on), so that is consistent
> with there being no access holes in the braces.
>
> Actually, I think it is HIGHLY probably that a P.O. removed the
> letters and filled in the holes, just did a lousy job of it.   As to
> why?  Many folks did this because they just didn’t like messing with
> the letters - keeping them clean and shiny is difficult - especially
> with a daily driver.
>
> Bill
>
>> On Nov 28, 2019, at 10:19 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs 
>> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>>
>
> The plot thickens! The build year is 09E. I didn't include that
> because I didn't know it was there - so thanks for telling me about
> it. But when I went out with a flashlight to look at it, I found that
> I could see the impressions of the letters in the paint where the
> 'Corvair' letters had been, both front and back. I find it highly
> improbably that somebody would have filled in the holes and yet left
> these impressions visible. And there is absolutely no sign of any
> filling either on top or underneath. Aside from being improbable, it
> is a heck of a lot of work to little purpose, to do the job properly.
> Did any of these cars have stick-on letters?
>
>> On 2019-11-28 21:38, William Hubbell wrote:
>> Two possibilities - either somebody swapped hood lids or filled in
>> the holes.
>>
>> Note that the very early 1964 lids had push-in letters so there were
>> no access holes in the braces.
>>
>> You still haven’t told us the build date of your car - look at the
>> fisher body tag on the rear frame rail in the engine compartment.
>> There should be a three digit code (two numbers and one letter) in 
>> the
>> upper left corner of the tag.  The numbers indicate the month and 
>> the
>> letter indicates the week when Fisher built the body.  So for 
>> example,
>> 09C means the third week of September (which for a 1964 model 
>> would’ve
>> been 1963).  The VIN does not provide the build date.
>>
>> Harmonic Balancers were only installed on the high performance
>> (110/150 HP) engines - not on 95HP.  You didn’t tell us which engine
>> you have.  However, lots of parts may have been switched or replaced
>> after 55 years.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>>> On Nov 28, 2019, at 9:20 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs 
>>>> <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> No holes anywhere on mine. Not even any holes in the brace piece 
>> (in
>> the front of the front trunk) to access the holes. I'm beginning to
>> wonder whether somebody has swapped the VIN? It has no damper on the
>> engine, but it has the transverse spring on the back. It has the 
>> later
>> front 'grille' emblem & side emblems, so who knows?
>> Frankly I don't much care - it's a Nevada or Arizona car and, apart
>> from a couple of pin holes in the front floor pans, there is no rust
>> on it anywhere, and that is what counts.
>>
>>>> On 2019-11-24 00:56, FrankDuVal via VirtualVairs wrote:
>>> Someone either replaced the lids with 61 to 63 items, or filled in
>>> the holes where the letters mount. Early 64 production had a foam
>>> inside the trunk lid, which caused the letter area to rust out. 
>>> Later
>>> production had nuts on the bottom of the trunk lid holding the 
>>> letters
>>> on.
>>>
>>> Frank DuVal
>>>
>>>> On 11/23/2019 11:41 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
>>>> I have four 1964 convertibles. Three have 'CORVAIR' on both the 
>>>> back & front of the car. The fourth has neither. Does anybody know 
>>>> the significance of this? The one without the lettering is a 900 
>>>> made in Willow Run & I believe is about the eighteen thousandth off 
>>>> the production line (VIN is 40967W 118001).
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