<VV> FC van choke and Greenbrier weatherstrips.

[Hugo Miller]

I just put a second pair of specs on and stared at it a bit harder. In 
my book it shows a bracket in the front firewall for the choke cables. 
This has four bolts or screws. At least I thought it did, but with a 
second pair of specs on it might just have two bolts at the top. The 
things at the bottom that look like bolts may not be bolts. On MY 
firewall, I have a plate held on by two screws in about the right place. 
It has a hole, through which goes a thin little pipe which looks like a 
vacuum pipe. Also my throttle cable goes through a hole way up high in 
the firewall, not underneath it like the book shows.
At the front of the car there are no holes in the dash, under it or 
anywhere near it. It does have an 'add-on' panel under the dash to the 
left of the steering column. This contains the wiper switch and what I 
presume is a washer switch, although I have no washers.
The intriguing part is that my ORIGINAL dash (not the Spyder dash that 
is fitted) has the word 'CHOKE' engraved in a line with the other 
markings. But there is no hole or anything underneath the word CHOKE. If 
it weren't so damn wet out there (this is England!) I would crawl 
underneath and see if there is any evidence of any choke fittings.
Other than that, your last suggestion might be the most plausible! 
Except that the door handles tally with the early type, and it has a 
gear shifter that is bent like a stick of liquorice and goes back 
horizontally through a vertical panel in the cab. I believe this is the 
early type & the later ones went down through the floor? Who knows what 
has happened over the past sixty years!


On 2019-11-04 17:43, Jim Becker wrote:
> OK, I should have said the word "CHOKE" was below the speedometer
> rather than at the bottom edge of the instrument panel.  The choke
> would still have been screwed to the bottom directly below it.  There
> should still be 2 screw holes there.
>
> THESE HOLES WILL NOT BE IN THE INSTRUMENT PANEL.  THEY ARE IN THE
> BODY, IN THE SAME PORTION THAT THE PANEL IS SCREWED TO.
>
> I am not aware of any Corvairs built in '61 without manual chokes.
> Either the two screw holes are below the instrument panel along with
> about three in the firewall, or somebody went to the trouble to fill
> them, or somebody jacked up the serial number plate and slid a
> different year body under it.
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