1965 Biscayne
 

Did these cars come as shown in this Ebay ad?
..396-425....with a/c ?
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Re: 1965 Biscayne
 

nope...

Re: 1965 Biscayne
 

Motors with solid lifters did not get ac (I thought?)...

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------What a pretty car tho, Jim!!!! Im thinking that the AC was added, but the car could be completely made up. I dont care! I like it. Appears to have great attention to detail...........Bill S

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C'mon now, I can think of a GM car that had solid lifters and air conditioning as an option in 1965. Let's see who has their thinking caps on today. It was also done one more time by GM about 7 years later. Anyone?

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Zoras fantastic plastic.

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'65 Fuelies & '72 LT1's?.

~ Pete
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Close enough. 1972 LT-1's and 1964-65 365-horse 327's. Basically, the 375-horse fuelie motor with a factory aluminum intake manfold and a carb instead. Strange, that the General wasn't too worried about A/C compressor reliabilty with these two solid lifter engines. Anyone that has ever road in either will vouch these are two very well running engines.

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...that is what I thought ...even if it is a made up car
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I have no idea why i've come back and looked at it 3,146 times already this morning...

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Aside from the A/C on the car, the 396 came out in February of the 1965 model year. According to my cowl tag database, this car (vin 120645) and all the other Los Angeles cars I have entered with vins from approximately 119000 to 122000 were built 12A, the first week of December 1964. This makes it impossible for the car to have ever had a 396. The engine installed in the car was also assembled May 10th, 1965, about 5 months after the car was built. Either way, it is a very nicely restored 65 Bel Air.
Steve

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This makes it impossible for the car to have ever had a 396. The engine installed in the car was also assembled May 10th, 1965, about 5 months after the car was built.

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As nice as the car is, what is unfortunate is that the seller is representing the car in such a way that a prospective buyer can easily be misled into thinking that this is a real-deal car. Here are some excerpts:

"Incredible VERY, VERY rare find! Vintage 1965 Chevrolet Belair RPO L78 two-door sedan with a totally awesome correct perfect three year professional ROTISSERIE restoration.... Built in Los Angeles, CA then shipped to Arizona this factory race car .... It is my understanding that only 1,138 were made in made in 1965. How many are left and how many are complete and in this condition today?"

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Saw a 365 horse air car last week and it had a BIG pully on the AC compressor. No solid lifter big blocks with air, though (except for the ZL1 Maco Shark).

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You know, that's really interesting about the large diameter A/C compressor pulley on 365 HP Corvettes. Slowing them down would do the trick probably. I never really paid any attention to the pulley up close though. Anybody got a picture?

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