Re: factory options

[Donald Gallimore <dongallimore@xxxxxxx>]

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-----
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