<VV> Head Rests

[airvair]

Fascinating! It would be interesting to get the info off the body plate. 
Headrest seats show up in that plate info. It might have even been one 
of the tech center engineers' toys or a preproduction prototype. But as 
a rule, the headrests were NOT available as an RPO until '66.

-Mark

vairologist@juno.com wrote:

>Smitty says:  No one really knows what has gone on in the history of some
>of our cars but I know of one 65 that by every clue I could see came from
>the factory with headrests.  The car belonged to a friend of mine who had
>resurrected it from a junkyard condition.  He asked me to re-cover the
>headrests since the beaded edges were splitting out.  The seats were 65
>pattern and had the proper pebble grain for 65.  The headrests matched. 
>66 grain is different.  The car was sold at the Carlisle convention by
>Allen Bristow.  A black convertible.