<VV> Re: vv diff between Corsa and Monza

[Brown, David]

 I repainted my 65 Monza convertible 3 years ago which had original
factory Regal Red paint.  Although most of the car had poor, faded &
chipped paint, the rear grille was in good condition with NO silver
paint on it.  In fact, up till now, I did not realize that Monzas came
with silver paint on the grill!  My 69 also is not silver, but then it
has been painted 3 times.  When I get home from traveling this week I am
going to look at as many pictures that I have of the rear grilles on
Monzas plus some books to see what they are supposed to look like.  Does
anyone have a picture that they can send to me?
Dave
Corvair Houston

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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Tony Underwood
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:18 PM
To: ncwitte at wittelaw.com
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: RE: <VV> Re: vv diff between Corsa and Monza

At 05:21 hours 12/20/2005, Norman C. Witte wrote:

>snip
>
>  The lower  grill piece on
> > the 500 and monza
> > (in 1965) was unadorned and had  a pair of small grille openings 
> > stamped into the center parts of  the lower section. The whole 
> > section was painted body color, including the  stamped portions.
>
>I always understood that the grille area on the Monza where the Corsa 
>inserts would otherwise be found was painted silver on the Monza.  
>Chuck Armer used to have a low mileage '65 madeira maroon Monza 
>convertible, and I believe that the insert area was painted silver on 
>his convertible.  I recall that the car did experience some pretty 
>serious collision damage and was repaired and repainted, but my 
>understanding was that the silver was correct.
>
>Anyone out there own an original paint '65 Monza?
>
>Norm Witte



Been there done that.   A  buddy and I parted out several  '65 Vairs 
and one of them presented a bit of a problem with "factory" equipment.

One, a very ragged '65 convertible,  was something my buddy picked up
for a song and a dance since it had flunked a safety inspection (rotted
floors and front crossmember) and the girl who had it didn't 
wanna mess around with it.   Faded factory maroon paint, black 
interior rather worn, top patched with black cloth tape of some sort, 
but it ran well (110/PG) and drove OK.   Also had some rather severe 
rust holes in the front fender doglegs and around the wheel well lips 
in back.   I recall the deck lids being OK as were the doors but the 
other sheet metal had issues.   Still, it was a decent parts car so 
it got parted out.  The original paint was still fairly decent on the
sides but the paint on the tops of the deck lids was worn thin enough 
to sport a patina of surface rust.    The original rear grill was 
there, looked as it had never been off the car, and it had no silver
paint on the grill areas like I'd always seen on '65 Monza rear 
grills, and this car had never been repainted.   No silver on the 
grill.    I brought this up once before and someone else mentioned 
that a '65 Monza in the family that had been purchased new also didn't
have any silver paint on the rear grill mesh area.

Evidently a few '65 Monzas got out the door with rear grills not painted
silver.

Either that or someone coincidentally swapped them for non-silver
painted grills at the dealer before the cars were sold, which I consider
to be rather unlikely.



tony..

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