Re: factory options

[Donald Gallimore <dongallimore@xxxxxxx>]

Good enough for me.  I'll go withthe front seaat belts being factory installed 
for the entire model year.

 
Akron Don Gallimore



----- Original Message ----
> From: William Harrison <bbjt3@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 9:55:20 AM
> Subject: Re: factory options
> 
> Bill from Toronto. You aren't quite right about seat belts.
> I am looking at  my owners manual for my 65 Coronet and to Quote verbatim.
> Seat Belts. Your  new car is equipped with front seat belts. It is strongly 
>recommended that you  and your passenger snap these in place whenever you drive. 
>Exact locations for  drilling holes for installing rear seat belts are marked on 
>the rear  floor.
> So to answer your question...On 65 Coronets; front seat belts were  standard 
>and rear seat belts were optional. Also, retractors were a dealer  option, not a 
>factory option.
> My owners manual also covers the Station  wagon.
> I don't know if this was the same for the Polara, 500, or 440  models.
> Hope this helps.
> Later
> Bill Harrison 
> 65 Coronet 2 dr  post.
> 
> --- On Mon, 10/18/10, roofer90203@xxxxxxxxxxx <roofer90203@xxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:
> 
> > From: roofer90203@xxxxxxxxxxx <roofer90203@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  Subject: Re: factory options
> > To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> >  Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:12 AM
> > 
> > I guess that what I am  really going to need is a look at an
> > original window sticker from any  '65 Mopar. That should give
> > me a starting point. Anybody have one that  they could scan?
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> >  >From: Donald Gallimore <dongallimore@xxxxxxx>
> >  >Sent: Oct 17, 2010 8:03 PM
> > >To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> >  >Subject: Re: factory options
> > >
> > >Okay, settle another  question - were seat belts
> > optional in the '65 B-Bodies 
> >  >until the start of the calendar year?  (like January
> > 1, 1965)  
> > >
> > > 
> > >Akron Don Gallimore
> > >
> >  >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message ----
> > >> From:  Gary H. <spigot2039@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >  >> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> >  >> Sent: Sun, October 17, 2010 5:50:28 PM
> > >> Subject: Re:  factory options
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 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
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> -----Original  Message-----
> > >> >From: Bill Watson  
> > >> 
> >  >> 
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