My 77 has the soft spare tire cover so I wonder when they changed to the molded cover.
I doubt the mileage. The seats are are wrong and the wheel flares behind the wheels look bad. Just my opinion.
It would take $10K to $15K in today's costs to get this car "right"...... What a shame. While this car is a little newer than my 22641, I'd have to say the tire well and hard water bottle are "all wrong" for an early steel car. So it's "Body Shop" followed by "Trim Shop" followed by "The Real Shop" where you dive into all the issues you have with "dead guys cars"........and at the end of the day you need $3K worth of books and tools to rebuild the lost documentation. $25K buy and you'd still be underwater for the foreseeable future, low miles or not.
The soft zipper tire cover (over the missing tire/5th mag, and wheel retainer bolt) and a 'saddle bag" washer reservior would be correct for this car, unless someone knows better. Oh yea, cut the side marker lights back in, 4 X $32 each plus labor.... I'm clueless as to why people do that mod..... The battery cover is $200 bucks, is it there????
It is curious how some people can think something is worth twice what it would get (at best). I can see people being stupid paying 2X worth for something trivial, but a Ferrari? Someone that dumb with money doesn't deserve to have it in the first place. Not that the seller of that car deserves it any more...I was thinking of me
The car shown is a month newer than mine. Mine doesn't have the zipper tire cover and it has the hard sided washer reservoir, same as this example. As far as I know, this was how my car was originally equipped. I know the earlier cars had the zipper cover, I don't know when exactly they changed over.
Okay thanks Scott, then we definately CAN place the design change late into the 1977 year production, interesting.... You need a space saver spare then, due to the washer bottle moving into the tub???
What is the red stuff on the tips of some of these downward facing studs? Image Unavailable, Please Login
The washer bottle actually sits inside the spare when the spare is in place. The bottle is held on by a bracket that allows you to slide the bottle up and move it out of the way when you need to get to the spare or the conveniently located battery beneath the spare. The lines are all flexible so you just lift the bottle up and sit it on top of the cover and radiator. My car is 22871 - Oct 1977, so we need to hear from someone between 22641 and me and we might find out when they changed. Or else it has something to do with US or Euro. I don't know, just speculating here...
