<VV> 1965-1969 convertible rear speaker enclosure

[hallgrenn at aol.com]

Tom and Mark,

My first hand experience has only been with the coupes and 4drs--sorry if I confused things.  I have seen a '68 and a '69 convertible with two rear speakers installed (factory speakers with the perforated metal grills) with the factory cardboard "standoff" shelf that was screwed in above the standard cardboard shelf using chrome trim screws (in tabs at the back cardboard wall and one long tab that were screwed into the top face of the cardboard behind the seat--same as the coupes with that option--except that the rear seat had to be detached for access on the convertibles).  In such cases there was a cutout in the original cardboard shelf--rectangular but with beveled and not square corners so the speaker magnet could rest on the insulation.  The standoff shelf was supported above the regular cardboard surface with rectangular pieces of cardboard.  These cardboard speaker shelves did not last long in my experience--they cracked and sagged.  I do not know if these two convertibles came this way from the factory or not.  All the assembly manuals I have seen show the stereo system as having the two left and right channels in the front doors and one speaker in the front and one in the back--but I have never seen a single speaker in the back with a stereo only two rear speakers in the "factory" installations I've seen.    Whether dealer or owner installed I don't know, but the standoff shelves I saw matched the ones used in the coupes and 4drs.  Of course with the mono radio with rear speaker option--and mine was a reverb speaker--the rear speaker was on the standoff shelf in the passenger corner.  I do have negatives of my '68 rear speaker shelf (the car has gone to the field in back of the Corvair Ranch), but they are just some of the thousands I plan to scan to digital files when I retire--at least that's the plan.

Bob


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From: Mark Corbin <airvair at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 10:32 am
Subject: Re: <VV> 1965-1969 convertible rear speaker enclosure


Got any pictures? Or is it identical to the coupe/4door version?

-Mark

From: hallgrenn 
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 10:34 PM
To: Mark Corbin ; 66vairman at comcast.net ; scg-list at tiger.skiblack.com ; 
virtualvairs at corvair.org 
Cc: clark at corvair.com 
Subject: Re: <VV> 1965-1969 convertible rear speaker enclosure

I have the rear speaker enclosure for my '65 Corsa (metal) which is mounted in 
the center unlike the later year models which were mounted in the right rear 
corner unless you had the stereo option which gave you one in each corner.
Bob

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