<VV> Next year's parts put on prior year's cars on assembly line

[jwcorvair at aol.com]

My 62 four-door Monza is a late production run car. It had the headlight bezels and wheel covers with the black paint tirm. I have replaced them with the "normal" 62 bezels and wheel covers because the originals were very beat up. I kept the originals, though.

Joe White (62 four door, 66 Porvair, 64 Spyder)



-----Original Message-----
From: wrsssatty <wrsssatty at aol.com>
To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 9:05 am
Subject: <VV> Next year's parts put on prior year's cars on assembly line



wo remarks in regard to the possible phenomenon of a part supposedly unique to 
he new model year being installed on the prior year's models on the assembly 
ine toward the end of the prior year's model run:
1.  As most of you know, the beautiful rear grill used on '62 and '63 model year 
orvairs was never reproduced and supposedly never available after 1963 as a 
eplacement part.  In fact, as I understand it, if one went to the local Chevy 
ealer's parts department and asked for a rear grill for a '62 or '63 Corvair 
he parts catalog listed only the part number for a '64 grill as being correct 
or '62 and '63 also.  Unconfirmed (to the best of my knowledge) rumor is that 
t some point during '63 model year production the mold for producing the 
62/'63 grill was some how destroyed.  In fact, another unconfirmed rumor is 
hat some late model year run '63 Corvairs came off the assembly line with '64 
tyle grills.  Anyone know for a fact?
2.  I always thought that all '62s had no black paint between the ribs of the 
eadlight bezels and only the '63s and '64s had the black paint there.  BUT, a 
ew years ago, when I was attending the Detroit/Sterling Heights, MI CORSA 
onvention I took the tour of the Hudson Museum in Ypsilanti which also houses 
he CORSA Museum and Preservation Fund's collection.  There, on a wall, I saw a 
actory flow chart detailing the assembly of a '62 Corvair and, lo and behold, 
he finished product '62 Corvair rolling off the assembly line on that poster 
ore the black paint between the ribs of the headlight bezels!  Anyone know 
nything more about that?
~Bill Stanley
_______________________________________________
his message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are the 
roperty
f the writer, please attribute properly. For help, mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
his list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America, http://www.corvair.org/
ost messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
hange your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs 
_______________________________________________