<VV> 63 rear emblem

[kenpepke at juno.com]

GM has many ways and reasons to implement changes … If they discover something really bad [very rare] they might even interrupt production!  Frequently, changes are made during production.  [Sometimesknown as a running production running change.] Most of these are aimed at cost savings.  In these cases they will run existing stock until it is depleted before they start installing the 'new' part.  Changes like this are frequently initiated by assembly line workers.  They see a cost savings idea and write a suggestion.  If used, and lots of these ideas are used, the worker receives extra pay.  

If you can establish that all 65s before your car had the sleeve, then that part could have been a 'carry over' part that got phased out.  Most delight in looking for the LAST vehicle to have the earlier part to establish the date of the change.  If it is the only one then the odds are somewhere, post production, that part had been changed.  

And … there is a whole 'nuther world of vehicles that can be made up of a variety of parts … Pilot vehicles.  These are PRE-production vehicles that can have interchanged parts all over the place.  Most Pilot vehicles are destroyed but some of the last ones can make it to SSV [Start of Saleable Vehicles] status.  Because they are built BEFORE regular production starts, they can have a myriad of previous model year parts.  Their I.D. tags are marked as such.


Ken P
Wyandotte, MI
65 Monza 110hp 4 speed 2 door
Worry looks around; Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.

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On Mar 13, 2013, at 7:34 PM, "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 
> Well, I DID have a very early built '65 that had the sleeve around the 
> heater hose (ala '64) to protect it from shorting on the starter.  When did 
> the dual master start - '67?  I also had a late built ('65 or 6 - whichever 
> would be applicable) that had the whole drilled in the trunk for the 
> additional brake line off of the master.
> 
> I'm not picking on Lon here, just could not stay out of the conversation any 
> longer.
> 
> Later, JR
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "lonwall at corvairunderground.com" <corvairs at pacifier.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 1:46 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> 63 rear emblem
> 
> 
>> Hi John - No no no no no NO.  This persistent idea that GM used earlier
>> parts on the newer years is wrong, especially where appearance items are
>> concerned. If you saw 64 rear deck lids on 63's they were converted over
>> the (past half century?) by their owners.
>> 
>> Lon Wall
>> www.corvairunderground.com
>> 
>> On 3/13/2013 6:00 AM, John Miller wrote:
>