Fw: <VV> 65: Early and Late

[J R Read_HML]

Forwarded (below) to VV.  Had only sent to Mike in error.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Mike Stillwell" <yenko117 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> 65: Early and Late


> I'd say that the location of the Fisher body tag would be a good 
> indicator. Early '65 had them on the left side of the rear frame rail and 
> later cars had them on the right side.  There (to my knowledge) does not 
> seem to be a specific point in time where everything happened at once.  I 
> have an early (built Sep '64 and sold Oct '64) '65 convert which had the 
> sleeve on the left heater hose from the factory.  That was a '64 type 
> build and most '65s did not come that way.  This is just one example.  Oh, 
> the Fisher tag is on the left and it is a Willow Run car.  BTW - that car 
> is currently FS.
>
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> Later, JR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Stillwell" <yenko117 at yahoo.com>
> To: <padgett46 at bellsouth.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:38 AM
> Subject: Re: <VV> 65: Early and Late
>
>
>>
>> I can offer a guess...roughly May '65, with Willow
>> Run serial number roughly W250000 and higher. The only
>> major difference was the change in the steering
>> box/column assembly. There were several other minor
>> changes, such as the headlight bezels and probably a
>> few other detail parts, but otherwise all '65's are
>> the same.
>>
>> Mike
>> YS-117
>>
>> --- padgett46 at bellsouth.net wrote:
>>
>>> I see a lot of mention for the '65 model year of
>>> early and late but no delineation. Is there a serial
>>> number or calendar date (of manufacture) that
>>> seperates "early" from "late" ?
>>>
>>> Padgett
>>
>>
>>
>>
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