1965 Corvette Coupe NCRS 5 Star Bowtie Award

[napa68]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Tim,
Congratulations and HNY. Nice gift for the New Year.

Silly question, but I’m assuming this switch is for an alarm?

Thanks for sharing yet another beautiful mid-year Corvette.

Chris.

You are correct. There is the switch in the hood jamb, as well as the fender that Pete installed.

[napa68]

Here a couple of neat detail items. After 89k miles, the crayon marking of the engine suffix survives.

[napa68]

........and a little paperwork too!

[69M22Z]

Beautiful engine pad!!

[60sStuff]

Originally Posted by napa68

You are correct. There is the switch in the hood jamb, as well as the fender that Pete installed.

Alarms were somewhat common back then as the Original owner of my ‘65 GTO added an alarm with a couple switches after she bought the car.
Nice that the switch on the fender is close to the FI emblem and not very noticeable.

This Nassau Blue ‘65 is gorgeous!

Thanks

[60sStuff]

Morning Tim,

How does that troublesome LH exhaust vent behind the drivers head work in this car.
I always thought those were a cool feature on the 64-65 coupes.

Back in the mid 70’s I was a smoker and that exhaust fan did a nice job sucking the smoke out of my ‘65 coupe.

[napa68]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

Morning Tim,

How does that troublesome LH exhaust vent behind the drivers head work in this car.
I always thought those were a cool feature on the 64-65 coupes.

Back in the mid 70’s I was a smoker and that exhaust fan did a nice job sucking the smoke out of my ‘65 coupe.

It's working Chris. I had to clean the contacts on the blower resistor to get it going. No biggie It seems like on many a 64-65 thatI have had the blower is removed.

[napa68]

I was not terribly impressed with the clutch / transmission in the car after driving it some more. At speed, it would upshift and downshift just like it should. In the driveway at temp......not so much. I had a similar experience with my Dad's 67 442. That car only had 27k miles on it.

So, I pulled the transmission to have a little lookie. First of all, the original clutch had lived a full life. Furthermore, a tang was broke off the clutch fork allowing the TO bearing to wander around (and it was a bit noisy).

What I was surprised to find, was when I pulled the side cover off of the trans. If you look at a previous post, you'd see in the notes Pete (original owner) had a leaking transmission on his punch list for the dealer. Pete had gotten so irritated with Felix Chevrolet, he never took the car back in. When I got the car, it had the same trans leak. It seemed as though the leak was from the side cover. But, the shift shaft seals were not the culprit. When I got the trans out, the top of the trans was CAKED in heavy baked on grease. I didn't think a ton of it, so I went about cleaning the transmission today, before I install some new gaskets.

I pulled the side cover to reveal what must be some of the UAW's handyworkThat added to the fact the front bearing retainer was NOT torqued properly. I think I found my leaks

On a side note, the suffix is still visible on the back of the right side cylinder head.

The new pressure plate and flywheel are at the machine shop getting resurfaced and balanced. The trans gaskets should be here Monday and the flywheel should be ready Tuesday.

[TWB]

The ultimate mid year. Only the L-88 exceeds in my opinion.

[SupremeDeluxe]

Originally Posted by TWB

The ultimate mid year. Only the L-88 exceeds in my opinion.

1965 fuelie==the most sophisticated midyear