<VV> 1960 authenticity/Grubser has it pegged

[Mel Francis]

If all these '60 details check out, perhaps a previous owner simply had some 
body repair work done
and they just grafted a '61 front panel or used '61 front clip into 
position. Check inside the trunk
for non-original spot welds.

My '65 Monza came to me with that sort of situation, very poor grafting of a 
used front clip,
to repair an accident that had wrinkled the front floor and bent the left 
frame horn. The left front fender
had been grafted at the middle of the wheel opening, perhaps to avoid having 
to weld in the fuel-filler area.

Mel Francis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HallGrenn at aol.com>
To: <rgubser at zoomtown.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> 1960 authenticity/Grubser has it pegged


>
> In a message dated 11/25/2009 10:07:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> rgubser at zoomtown.com writes:
>
>
> Lots  of differences between '60 and '61. Most importantly, what is the
> VINon the  title? Does it match the plate on the driver's door jamb? Is 
> the
> plate  spot-welded on as the factory did it, or has it been replaced with
> rivets or  screws? if the car has heater ducts in the rocker panels it's 
> not a
> '60. The  battery on a '60 was originally mounted on the passenger side. A 
> '60
> will have  a unique gas tank with a screwed-in sender unit. There a lots 
> of
> other  '60-only features, so it shouldn't be too hard to prove if it's
> real.
>
> --
> rgubser
>
>
>
> Grubser has the differences I would check.  You'd have to be  really
> strange to change all these items to try to make the car a '60.  For 
> instance,
> the engine could have been switched, but no one is going to cut out a 
> hole
> for the battery box to move it to the passenger side like the '60. 
> Wheels,
> hubcaps could be iffy, but Fisher Body did the changes not someone on  the
> final assembly line.
>
> Bob
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