<VV> Suspension option for '64? Was: Heavy duty suspension?

[Bryan Blackwell]

Hi Bill,

Those Fisher body tag option codes only apply if something needed to be done to the body - a hole cut, for example.  A well known one is the turbo cars have an accessory code since they had the exhaust cutout.  Fisher also installed the glass, so tinted glass has a code.  I can't think of anything on the body that is required for the HD suspension in any year.  I'm pretty sure you'd need the original window sticker or Chevy broadcast sheet to know if the car came with the HD suspension.

--Bryan

On May 13, 2014, at 12:52 PM, wrsssatty--- via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> The sales brochure for '64 passenger cars lists, under "Corvair Options and Custom Features", "Special suspension is available for all models; includes special front and rear springs and shock absorbers."  Tony Fiore on page 64 (appropriately!) of "The Corvair Decade" wrote; "the extra cost special suspension option now [model year 1964] consisted of specially calibrated coil springs and heavy-duty shock absorbers."  
> I would imagine that the 4th line on the Body Identification Tag (not the VIN plate) would indicate an accessory & option code if the vehicle in question were so equipped from the factory.  However, to the best of my knowledge "the Corvair Junkyard Primer" does not have these codes and I don't believe that larry claypool covered any accessory and option codes in his "Stock Is..." series in the communique for any model year other than '63 and '66.  Someone please correct me if I am mistaken.
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> ~Bill Stanley