[FC] 61 FC differences

[Rad Davis]

Rain gutters:

My '65 Greenbrier has A-pillar gutters.  My father's '61 Ramp does 
not.  The lack of gutters makes for noticeably less wind noise, but it does 
cause a fair amount of water dripping on your leg as you open the door.

His '61 Rampside had a big folded-trumpet (round) horn mounted to one frame 
rail under the floor boards.  It makes a deep, resonant truck-like "honk" 
which he hated.  My '65 deluxe Greenbrier came with a horn that sounded 
just like a car horn.  I replaced it with the horn he removed from his 
'61.  No accounting for taste.


At 04:00 PM 12/26/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>   I have been getting somw work done on the fleet the past couple of days 
> and came across a few things I thought I would share.
>   I just realized my 61 Rampside has a small gutter on each A pillar and 
> my 62 Greenbrier does not. Also, the Rampside has a 12 inch long horn 
> that appears to go through the front frame rail under the passenger side 
> floorboard. The Greenbrier has a horn that looks similar to what's in my 
> cars. Has anybody noticed this before? I must admit, I have owned the 
> Rampside for a few years and never noticed the lack of gutters until recently.
>   Lastly, I have noticed two different antenna mounting positions that do 
> not appear year related. Both my 61 Rampside and 62 Greenbrier have it 
> mounted about 2 inches left of the body seam on the flat horizontal 
> section. My friend's 65 Greenbrier and a couple 62 rampsides in a local 
> junkyard have the antenna mounted 5 or 6 inches left of this same seam, 
> right on the curved transition from horizontal to vertical. These 
> vehicles had a special bezel that was angled to deal with the slope.
>   Is this a dealer installed versus factory installed deal?
>
>   Thanks,
>   Bill Wells
>
>
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