Another SB with BB hood on eBay

[mike cobine]

No offense to Roy, but I have run across several small block cars that claim to have factory installed big block hoods. Now if you accept that Roy's is correct, and Noland is right in his book, then most will fall real close to Roy's VIN.

5000 away probably isn't close enough, is it?




Yellow 67 coupe 300004120962

[Richard S.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

The assembly line identification number on the build sheet is accurate.......I'd really like to see the rest of the build sheet.

[Roy B.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

No offence taken , yes 5000 cant be right, I was at Noland's house a few weeks ago talking about my hood and he believes it only happened for about a week around my serial number date. He feels as I do weather people believes him or I ( we don't care).
We've talked about many things NCRS people talk about. We talked about when we told owners years ago of the C1's that they could find the color of their Corvette in crayon on the body by scraping paint off. I can still see the look they gave us! till later when we wrote about it in SACE. To many years to many Corvettes, to many questions, I don't care any more.

[Michael H.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

There is ONE thing that would probably convince me that these big block hoods are factory installed on about 550 small block 67's.

If the hood support was originally installed on the left side instead of the right side, and there was absolutely no evidence that the support has been relocated. This would include the lack of the tapping plate riveted to the underside of the fender skirt.

If the small block hood wasn't available for a week, the assy process would have changed and the SB car would have had the hood support reinforcement on the BB side of the car. Just my opinion.

[Roy B.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

Who knows ,but my 67 dont have the support plate on the right side and you can tell it never had . I wish Noland never wrote about my 67 hood

[William C.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

Dind't Noland also indicate the stinger paint was not applied on the smallblock editions, or is my mind leaving me in the fog?

[Michael H.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

Roy,

Are you talking about the plate in the hood itself or the one under the fender skirt that the hood support lower attaching bolts thread into?

If there were no reinforcement/tapping plate, and never was one, on the small block on the fender skirt for the hood support, that would make the BB hood on a SB car very believeable.

Would be interesting to see one of these with all of the paint stripped off of that small area on the fender skirt.

[Roy B.]

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Michael that's right no support plate was ever installed on the right , this is the left fender support plate and no rivet= see other pic.

[Roy B.]

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Bill your right no stinger should be there, this is the inner right fender where a support plat should be and never was

[Roy B.]

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[Roy B.]

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[Michael H.]

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Roy.

I don't understand why there's no rivet on the reinf. Also, I'm confused about why holes would have been drilled on the RH skirt if no reinf was going to be installed. That reinf looks pretty new.

I dunno...

Off to watch the Na$car deal. I'll see if I find some info on this when I get back.

[Alan Drake]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay

Just had a converstaion at coffee this morning which included the engineering v factory; resulting in many non engineering spec's appearing in vets and other cars. Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that ours cars were built on a factory floor where daily numbers out the door was the LAW.

One example we talked about was a BB hood being del on a SB 67, NEW. Everyone told owner it was impossible, but there it was. Just interesting the subject came up on the Board today.

[Roy B.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay Alan

How many know or think it happened again in the 70's.

[Wayne W.]

Re: Another SB with BB hood on eBay Alan

The problem is, that Noland says that there should be no signs of the brace ever being attached on the RH side. With all due respects, he then proceeds to cite Roy`s car, which totally contradicts the statement. There IS evidence of the bracket on the RH side. That evidence is the holes. Those cars that would have been BB hood equipped would have no holes what-so-ever. That was the common practice on the BB line, and the bodys were rolling off so fast that from body build to assembly was not very long. They would have known that the hoods were short and just modified production using BB build methods. It just didnt happen folks, at least not the way it was said to have. There is absolutely no evidence, and no proven examples have surfaced. If this had gone on for two or three days, we would have certainly found an example. Heck, we have found all of the L88s and then some. Roy, you and me both wish that Noland had never written about your car.