Re: factory options

["Gary H." <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below is what Bill wrote for those who could not view it:

No such thing as "heater delete" prior to 1965, while "radio delete" did not
appear before the 1980's.

Prior to 1965 heaters were optional, thus heaters appear in salesman's order
book,.  Back then if you did not want a heater, you did not order a heater.
"Heater delete" did not appear until heaters were standard equipment, at
which time you ticked the "No heater" box on the order form and got a car
with no heater.

Remember, you cannot delete something that is not there.  The basic car back
then did not have a heater, thus you could not get "heater delete".  There
was no heater, and as a result the heater could not be deleted.  But in 1965
heaters were standard, thus if you ordered your car with sales code 406, you
got "heater delete".

Same with radios.  Back in the 1950's and 1960's radios were optional. If
you ordered a car with no options, you got a car with blackwall tires,
hubcaps, no heater, no radio, and if automatic transmission was optional,
you got a manual transmission, clutch  and all.

When radios became standard in the 1980's it became possible to order a
"radio delete" car.  You had the standard radio deleted from the build
specs.  But, again, if the basic car came with no radio, you could get the
radio option, but not a radio delete.  In 1980 if you ordered a car that had
a radio as standard equipment, if you ticked box R08, you ordered a car with
radio delete.  But in 1965 there was no radio delete code as radios were
optional, even on Imperials.

And the same goes for such items as driver s outside mirror and seat
belts which were made standard equipment years before the American
government had the power to dictate safety standards.  During the period
prior to the safety standards such could be deleted - code 460 was front
belts deleted in 1965.

Bill
Toronto, ON



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