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I'm looking at a '65 with the side mouned exhaust. I've never owned one with this option. The seller swears it came from the factory and maybe so. This is important to re: his honesty. My question: When this car left the factory, at eye level, when you look at the side exhaust, can you see the bolt heads that attach this device to the car. Thanks for reading my query and your comments........Don Watts
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Hello Don
What is the VIN to this 1965 Corvette?
Regards,
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Drew, it is 194675S110251Comment
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Hello Don,
I have copy of an original window sticker of a car built a week after. The car was built with factory side exhaust option N14.
Regards,
Drew PapsunComment
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Drew, I appreciate quick reply. Will you tell me if it had the 327/365 hp ?Comment
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Hello Don,
The 1965 Corvette has a fuel injection 375 HP engine option L84.
Regards,
Drew PapsunComment
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Don,
One good check is to determine if the car has a St. Louis body or AO Smith body. There were no side exhausts on AO Smith bodies. The trim tag will tell you where the body was built.Comment
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Thanks, John. The body code has A so I guess the pipes were an add-on.Comment
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Drew, I'm a bit confused. You say that the VIN # I provided you came w/ the FI engine and not the 365 HP. Is that correct? Also, re: the side pipes- you said you had an original sticker on a car built after the one I'm inquiring about so how do I tie that in to the this car. When you say the car had the side pipes do you mean the car built one week after mine of mine ? I'm confused. I would appreciate you clearing this up for me. Obviously, I am No expert. Thanks......DonComment
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Hello Don,
The 1965 Corvette that I have a copy of the original window sticker is fuel injection and factory installed side pipes listed as built. This Corvette was built one week after your car build. It is a ST. Louis body built Corvette.
Sorry if I was not clear with my answer. I do not have any prior knowledge of your Corvette.
Regards,
Drew PapsunComment
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Hi Don, I think what Drew was stating is that 1965 was the first year that N14 factory side exhaust was offered on the corvette and it was also not offered until I think about half way into the model year. Because he has documentation that shows that a VIN later than the one your looking at had factory side exhaust, then yours could have in fact had this option too. There would be a cut off point where the VIN would have been too early for side exhaust to be a factory option.Comment
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I'm no expert here on side exhaust. But, think about this if there ever was a side exhaust A O Smith car it might have been very early in the availability of the option when A O Smith bodies were already built and bayed in St Louis. We still have seen no supporting documentation for an AO Smith side exhaust car. But just as we have no supporting evidence of an A O Smith 67 Big Block ever being built we also suspect that if one actually exist it will be in the first several hundred cars built in 67. So is it possible that an early 65 side exhaust car might be A O Smith bodied? For years we thought there were no side exhaust Fuel Injected cars, now Drew has a Window sticker for one, and at least one real one has been judged. The anomaly of side exhaust combined with fuel injection may be a combination of things more related to low production of fuel cars after the side exhaust were available and due to the fact that the 396 came on stream about the same time. Just food for thought.
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Roy,
In addition, my '65 Fuel Inj car, 14713, has the "cut outs" that John Hinckley pointed out to us at one of our tech seminars for the MI Chapter. He also stated that these would be very hard to replicate. I have had the car for ten years and I doubt that anyone else had this information in the late eighties or early nineties when the car was restored to fake these "cut outs". So, I guess that there are two FI '65's that originally came with sidepipes. ; )
Regards,
George 31887Comment
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George We've judged one I know of it had the notches, Drew has a window sticker on one, yours has the notches, I have heard of another window siticker so there are some fuel injected side exhaust cars but the number must be pretty low, we have not seen many.
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Roy,
Thanks, I knew it was pretty rare, but not exactly how rare. It would be nice to see numbers. Now someone just needs to offer me hemi 'cuda money.
GeorgeComment
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