ON A 1964 LATE YEAR CONV.(S111834 #), SHOULD BE THE ADD ON BODY MOUNT KIT INSIDE OF #3? ALSO ON THESE LATE YEAR CARS,DID THEY NOT HAVE THE 63 MOUNTS ON THE INSIDE?
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Re: BODY MOUNTS 1964-1964LATE
I believe the "body mount" you are referring to is the inborad seat belt anchor reinforcement that was part of the '63 configuration. I'm not sure what they did in '64. to reinforce the seat belt mount, but later C2s have cable reinforcements. There was no outboard seat belt reinforcement on '63s. The belt was just bolted to a gusset plate riveted to the floor pan. Our cars predate crash testing, so who knows how well the seatbelts will perform in a real crash!
Duke
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Re: BODY MOUNTS 1964-1964LATE
a 64 conv built on or around Feb 24, 1964 should not yet have the "add on" mounts or rear frame gussets, but should have the inboard mounts.Comment
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Re: BODY MOUNTS 1964-1964LATE
I got too many "1"s in the ser#,the car in question was mid may i think #118434.When they added the "add on body mount kit in 1964,was the inside mount dleted from the frame?
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Re: BODY MOUNTS 1964-1964LATE
The widely accepted transition time for the triangular frame reinforcing gussets as well as the "add on" body mounts, is April 1964. With the car being made in mid May, you should have both the triangular frame reinforcing gussets as well as the "add on" body mounts. Your car should also retain the inner mounts. Looking at your frame should tell you exactly what mounts it had, as the inner mount tangs and the triangular gussets are both plainly visible underneath.
As a side note, my car # "11497*" has both the triangular frame reinforcing gussets as well as the "add on" body mounts even though it was made earlier than the widely accepted changeover point. The original VIN is visible on the kickups, and the car is previously unrestored. Even stranger is the fact that I know of a couple of 64's which were built less than 100 units AFTER mine that do not have the mounts nor the reinforcing gusset. I wish someone could explain that?!Comment
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Re: BODY MOUNTS 1964-1964LATE
Mid-year frames were made at A.O. Smith-Granite City, Illinois, and stacked on a pad outside awaiting rail cars. Then they were stacked on rail cars and sent to St. Louis, where they sat in the rail yard until they could be shunted over to the Corvette frame pad, where they were unloaded from the rail car and stacked outdoors again; they were then plucked off the nearest stack and loaded on the frame line. During all this stacking/loading/stacking/shipping/unloading/unstacking, there was little attempt to maintain date or inventory lot control, so when a running change was incorporated at Granite City, it seldom occurred with a perfectly clean breakpoint on the line at St. Louis - that's the way it was in those daysComment
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