64-66 Silver interior

[Loren L.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Jim G., Murray's '64 is now owned by Mike Johnson, above.

[David B.]

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Great color! Do not know if production quantity has ever been published for 64-66 Silver interior.
1964 ---- Vinyl --- Silver & grey 648 ---Leather -- 47
1964 ---- vinyl ---Silver & blue 491 -- " -- 37
1965 ----Vinyl --- Silver 716 ----- -- Leather --57
1966 ----Vinyl --- Silver 630 ----- -- Leather ---65

[Richard S.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Morning David.....Would you have the production numbers for the silver vinyl code 490D_ in your records for 1964?
Thanks.... Ric

[Loren L.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

490D? Help me out......

[David B.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Morning David.....Would you have the production numbers for the silver vinyl code 490D_ in your records for 1964?
Thanks.... Ric

Went hunting on that one --- could find no vinyl silver code 490D. Notation asterisk indicates "Exc. letter application changed".
Under RPO 490 only Red, Blue, Saddle & Black listed. --- 490AD Red, 490BD Blue, 490CD Saddle (D indicates coupe)

[Richard S.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Thank you for looking, from what I have surmised over the years 490D_ interiors were only offered early in the production months Sept-Nov. These silver interiors had a grey dash with the silver seats and grey carpet, and the grey dash was stopped I believe. All the interior documents for '64 I have there is not one 490D_ showing up after Nov.'63. I am no expert on '64 interiors but have always found these silver, silver/grey, and silver/blue to be unique. Now the OP asked in post #9 if there were any other carpet colours available with the silver seats, and when I was helping Noland Adams back before he published his book in early 1988 he suspected that the silver/blue interiors may have had blue carpet. With the small number of the silver/blue interiors made we may never really know.

[Loren L.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

490D is an early 1963 code for a red vinyl interior in a convertible, later succeeded in 1963 with "M", "R", "XB" and "XD".

[Richard S.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

The '64 code 490D(A,C,D,E coupe and B,F,G,H convertibles) are indicated as production year effective dates. Another interesting fact is that I do not have any 491A_ or 899A_ codes showing up before Dec.'63 but I only have a small sampling of cars for'64, other 491 two-tone codes but not the silver/grey

[Jack J.]

[Mark F.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Jack - could we see a few pix?

[Richard S.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Afternoon Jack....your trim code should be 491A_ or 899A_ ,would you mind giving me the build date or the body # of your car?
Thanks

[Jack M.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

The '64 code 490D(A,C,D,E coupe and B,F,G,H convertibles) are indicated as production year effective dates. Another interesting fact is that I do not have any 491A_ or 899A_ codes showing up before Dec.'63 but I only have a small sampling of cars for'64, other 491 two-tone codes but not the silver/grey

Richard - Do you have a copy of this sales info document... is this composite image any help?
I'm not very knowledgeable on 64s, so the product info could also be a typical GM mistake.

1964_Interior-01.jpg
1964_Interior-02.jpg

[Richard S.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Thank you Jack for the doc....Yes I am aware of this as it was posted in Dobbins book in 1977, Noland believed that the reference to grey carpet for the silver/blue interior was an error. The consensus was if all the other two-tone trim noted the seat/carpet colour such as white/saddle or white/red why would the silver/blue also not mean seat/carpet colours. I am not saying for sure that the silver/blue did not have grey carpet, but it is food for thought. This document notes silver/black as the trim yet other publications refer to it as silver/grey which makes perfect sense when you consider the designation for the other colours as referencing seat/carpet. We will probably never know the answer for sure and anyones guess is as good as mine, and I personally think the silver/black (black carpet) would be far more striking than the grey, just my opinion.

[Garry B.]

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In the For what it's worth category, I one owned a small block '65, silver/silver and the carpet color was as mentioned bu most everyone else, a medium to light silver gray.

[Jack J.]

Re: 64-66 Silver interior

Afternoon Jack....your trim code should be 491A_ or 899A_ ,would you mind giving me the build date or the body # of your car?
Thanks

Richard, you are correct. However the code reads 491AA. The build date would be May1,1964. J.J.