Anyone hear of this 1967 SB with BB hood? One of only six A O Smith cars known by NCRS to have been built this way?
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Anyone hear of this 1967 SB with BB hood? One of only six A O Smith cars known by NCRS to have been built this way? -
Re: 67 SB with BB hood.
I may have seen it in a Restorer issue. Seems that they ran out of SB hoods, and installed BB hoods on a very few cars. Numerals were not installed on them, and stinger was not painted on.
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Re: OH BOY, Here we go again
The Question that I have is just who in the NCRS did the certification. Just where did this information come from?Comment
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Re: OH BOY, Here we go again
Wayne:
I may have seen it on one of the other Corvette websites, I am not sure. In any event, I thought it was true. Shouldn't have been so quick to jump in. If it is inaccurate, then I retract what I said.Comment
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A classic "urban legend"
I've been hearing about this for many years, seems like it keeps coming back. To my knowledge, nothing has come any closer to than "I got it from the original owner, and he swears it came that way". Has anyone ever come up with paperwork, production order, photos, ANYTHING to prove this? I mean, it would be kinda cool if it were true, BUT...Comment
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Re: A classic "urban legend"
Guys,
I've been hearing about the big block hood on 67 small blocks for 30 years and you will just have to take it with a grain of salt.
Chevrolet would not have documented putting the BB hood on a SB car anyway. They were not in the habit of documenting each piece of a production car. It's like doors, deck lid, etc.
Chevrolet was in the business of pushing production cars thru the back door and hoods, hubcap centers or outside mirrors would not stop the line.
Another 2 cents,
JRComment
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Everybody takes pictures...
of their new Corvette when they get home. Maybe somebody has one in the album...Comment
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Re: Everybody takes pictures...
Dave,
Good Thinking!
I also been waiting on those pics for 30 years!
Regards,
JRComment
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Re: Everybody takes pictures...
Along with the pics of '63 KO wheels...Comment
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Re: Everybody takes pictures...
I have been waiting for those pictures too, and a lot of others. It is interesting that all of these cars seem to be A O Smith cars. Every one that has been brought to this board lately anyway. Now,isnt it interesting that AOS would have been the one to convert these since they supposedly were not building BB cars there. I guess they just had a few hoods left laying around. They may not have had any paper documentation, although, I think that a deviation of this type would have generated some paper trail somewhere, but the construction of the body and the method of assembly would document it. To this date I have seen no example that satifies me that it is real, and there is one sure fire way to tell.Comment
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Re: OH BOY, Here we go again
Wayne, You may remember me from a thread about 2 weeks ago re: BB hoods,SB cars, yada, yada... My 67 coupe was the one that has a notation on the dealer bill of sale re: a BB hood swap, but it was printed under the section entitled "dealer installed options and accessories" so, I guess the dealer put it on (or not ?)for no charge. As much as I'd like to believe that mine is the genuine article, I can't in all honesty say that it came that way from St. Louis only that it definitely came from the dealer that way. This latest blurb is just another case of wishful thinking on someone's part.Comment
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Re: OH BOY, Here we go again
Don, Yours is definitely the most interesting example that I have heard of. Still would like to have those pictures that I asked about.Comment
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Re: Everybody takes pictures...
With today's technology, though, who will examine the pictures to be sure they are authentic?
Got an old roll of Ectachrome laying around?Comment
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I can see several issues
Obviously, Noland Adams' book says that the mold broke and for a few days, they used big block hoods. This sounds good, but I'd think it would take more than a few days to get a new mold. And if they repaired the old mold, I'd expect to see some error in the hood, like the seam in the valve covers, although I guess they could simply sand it out.
Paperwork wise, I think a broken mold would have to generate a work order to get a new one or repair the old one. If the repaired one left a seam, I'd think there would have to be paperwork changing the assembly instructions in the bodywork area about sanding the seam smooth.
As to changing out the big block hoods in place of the small block hoods during this time, I think a lot of that may depend on at what level the blame for a broken mold (if any) would be place. The more paperwork, the more exposure to upper management. (come on, none of you haven't done something "outside the rules" at work?)
I think it would be in very small quantities of copies as many internal memoes and work orders would be, so the chances of a copy surviving are slim. It wouldn't be like a thousand copies had to go to the line.
I'd be curious as to what you would consider the sure fire way as most ways I can think of could be installed by a good builder.Comment
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Re: I can see several issues
Noland says a lot of things. He says that the mold broke, he says that a decision was made. Decisions in that corporate structure generated paper trails. He says that they were installed three to five days, all of this without any notation of documentation. He says that replacement hoods have provisions on the RH side. Everyone look at your replacement hoods. Do they have provisions on the RH side? He says that cars with these hoods installed will have no provisions for the bracket mount on the RH innerfender, but the only documentation provided is citing a car that HAS evidence of provisions on the RH side. There is a way to tell conclusively that a `67 did come with a BB hood. You can`t, however, tell conclusively that it did not.Comment
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