A.O. Smith C2 Body Panel Manufacturing Start Date?

[James W.]

When did A.O. Smith begin manufacturing C2 body panels... or did that begin for C3 production?

Thanks,

James

[Harry S.]

Bodies, James, if my memory serves me correctly, January 1964.

[James W.]

James, if my memory serves me correctly, January 1964.

Harry,

I am aware that A.O. Smith began building 1964 Corvette bodies in January of 1964 sometime after VIN 09678.

It was my understanding that all C2 Corvette body panels at that time were produced by one manufacturing plant in Ohio and shipped to St. Louis and Ionia, Michigan for assembly.

Did this change in 1966-1967 or did that happen beginning with the C3 production?


Thanks,

James

[Mark F.]

James and Harry,

Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) was the supplier in Ashtabula, Ohio.
History is at the link below...
They also produced the Avanti panels

Still in business today
Earl Carley was PPG Fiber Glass Research Center's Tech Rep to MFG...he was in the office right next to mine ('81-'83)...what a character he was !

https://mfgcwp.com/about-mfg/history/

[James W.]

James and Harry,

Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) was the supplier in Ashtabula, Ohio.
History is at the link below...
They also produced the Avanti panels

Still in business today
Earl Carley was PPG Fiber Glass Research Center's Tech Rep to MFG...he was in the office right next to mine ('81-'83)...what a character he was !

https://mfgcwp.com/about-mfg/history/

Mark,

So MFG was the only supplier of fiberglass body panels for C1 and C2 Corvette production? A.O. Smith never manufactured body panels for C2 and C3 Corvette production???

Thanks for your reply.

James

[Mark F.]

Mark, So MFG was the only supplier of fiberglass body panels for C1 and C2 Corvette production? A.O. Smith never supplied body panels for C2 and C3 Corvette production??? Thanks for your reply. James

James,

My bad...I should have said Molded Fiber Glass (MFG) was a supplier in Ashtabula, Ohio.

I'm not sure when (or for what generations) AOS (DowSmith) made Corvette body panels...

Corvette forum had at least one post (John Hinckley's) that said they did...
Larry Galloway would know for sure - he was there (St. Louis AND Ionia) August 1962 to some time in 1967

[David H.]

FYI: Link to John Hinckley's CF post "JohnZ"


https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...fiberglas.html



FYI Web Manager/Moderator: I only copied link to JohnZ's CF post. As I look at my link just now, it is ONLY link information. When I press save and look at my post, it has a lot of verbiage from CF post. On our old Tech Board, a link was just a link - no extraneous text. Thanks