1965 owners guide

[Jack Steele]

Hi Guys and Girls,

How does one tell issue 1 from issue 2 in 1965 owners guide books that you keep in the glove box?

Thanks in advance,

Jack Steele
1965 396

[Dave S.]

Re: 1965 owners guide

They will be designated either first or second edition on the first page. The second edition should have a Dec. 1964 date next to it. There are also Helm, Inc. reissue manuals with the same wording but that is another story all together. The archives has information on that.

[Jack Steele]

Re: 1965 owners guide

Thanks Dave. for your responce.

The reason for my question was that a judge at Kissimme looked at my 1965 owners guide and said that it was a first edition and that I need to have the second edition (May car ) but the book was in a sealed plastic bag and he did not open it. How did he know?

Thanks for your interest.

Jack Steele

[Dave S.]

Re: 1965 owners guide

Jack,
Obviously one can't tell the edition without opening it. Anything judgeable should be readily open for the judge to see. Although if not, it's not unusual for the judge to ask the car owner to open anything for inspection during judging. Your May car needs a second edition. That is the more difficult manual to locate if you are looking for an original.

[Jack Steele]

Thanks Dave. *NM*

[Dennis H.]

Re: 1965 owners guide

My 65 was built in Jan and the orginal owners manual was in the glove box. Funny how it lasted all those years without getting lost when most every other numbers matching part and paperwork on the car went missing.

[ed styczynski]

Re: 1965 owners guide

I have a 65 june build car and Iam pretty sure the second edition should contain a 396 insert. Good luck, tough to find,

[Jack H.]

Re: 1965 owners guide

I had the factory original of the 396 errata page with my L78 glove box literature... You can now get a reproduction (probably a Xerox photocopy) out of the Long Island catalog. There's still no mention of the L78 in the second edition of the '65 owner's manual and my late April build car came with a first edition manual.

They almost never changed the PN of the owner's manual, so subsequent editions were inventoried in the same bin with earlier editions. Judges who think there was a SHARP cutoff after the release of a subsequent edition of the owner's manual and take point deductions are simply wrong, in my opinion. It was the luck of random draw with about the only hard fact you can nail down being, you shouldn't see a car with an edition of the owner's manual in it that was printed AFTER the car was originally built!