Deck Lid trim
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Racer
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From: newton IA
Deck Lid trim
This is going to be a tough one for none but the true C2 historians.
When I bought my car about 5 years ago it was basically a pile of parts. The Vin-tag, title and engine where all from the same car (a 1965 convertable) but everything else on the car is from a combination of all five years. The deck lid was made of an off-white fiberglass I discovered after striping it down but before I did that I noticed that "63" was writen on the underside with a yellow crayon the way wrecking yards often use. Obviously this car is being made into a 65 so I researched the difference between the 65 and 63 deck lid and came up with the 9 or 11 hole difference for the trim. My lid has 9 holes with no evidance of any repairs so I came to the conclusion that the crayon guy was wrong and the lid was a 65 - 67. It is getting very close to paint time now so I bought the trim piece to make sure everything fit because I just wasn't trusting things. My instinct was correct. Seven of the 9 studs fit fine but the two outer holes were about an inch and a half too far out. Thank God I found out before the paint job because those holes wouldn't have been covered by the trim piece. I drilled two new holes and patched the other ones so the piece fits nice now but the question still remains. Where the
did this deck lid come from. Another strange thing about this deck lid is that there are no nutplates for the anti-rattle metal pieces just aft of the latch. I made my own so, again not a problem but where did this thing come from?
When I bought my car about 5 years ago it was basically a pile of parts. The Vin-tag, title and engine where all from the same car (a 1965 convertable) but everything else on the car is from a combination of all five years. The deck lid was made of an off-white fiberglass I discovered after striping it down but before I did that I noticed that "63" was writen on the underside with a yellow crayon the way wrecking yards often use. Obviously this car is being made into a 65 so I researched the difference between the 65 and 63 deck lid and came up with the 9 or 11 hole difference for the trim. My lid has 9 holes with no evidance of any repairs so I came to the conclusion that the crayon guy was wrong and the lid was a 65 - 67. It is getting very close to paint time now so I bought the trim piece to make sure everything fit because I just wasn't trusting things. My instinct was correct. Seven of the 9 studs fit fine but the two outer holes were about an inch and a half too far out. Thank God I found out before the paint job because those holes wouldn't have been covered by the trim piece. I drilled two new holes and patched the other ones so the piece fits nice now but the question still remains. Where the
did this deck lid come from. Another strange thing about this deck lid is that there are no nutplates for the anti-rattle metal pieces just aft of the latch. I made my own so, again not a problem but where did this thing come from?
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: Southeastern VA
Your deck lid could have came from a 1964. I think it uses more than 9 holes but the outside holes ARE spaced different than the 63, 65-67......don't ask me how I figured that out 
I ended up having Al Knoch make me one for the 64 stud pattern but with the 67 upholstery design and shorten the ends approx 1" so it did not wrap around the radius of the lid. Imagine the look on my face when I tried to install the correct 67 piece on my freshly painted car 
I never thought of the possibility of a different hole spacing.
R/
Jeff
I ended up having Al Knoch make me one for the 64 stud pattern but with the 67 upholstery design and shorten the ends approx 1" so it did not wrap around the radius of the lid. Imagine the look on my face when I tried to install the correct 67 piece on my freshly painted car I never thought of the possibility of a different hole spacing.R/
Jeff
Last edited by 1coolC2; Feb 13, 2009 at 06:56 AM.
