Re: 1963...When did A/C first appear?
[quote=Tom Christmann (1789);526200]I'm a little late on this thread, but I have been documenting 63 air cars since the early 80's (I also worked with Noland on the 63 air section in his book). I owned the Bunkie Knudsen serial 55 car and spoke with Bunkie personally, the car was a retrofit at the design center. I also have docs from the company that produced the molds for some of the ducts; they received the order to build molds in December and the molds did not physically exist until early January (that coincides with Nolands docs about an December release). Based on my list of about 150 air cars, personal inspection of many (and ownership of 6 including the big tank air car), production clearly began with cars serial number 13,000 and higher. I have no 12,000 cars on the survey, and two 11,000 cars that have not been documented. All cars below 13,000 that I have personally inspected do not have the correct, and unique to 63 only, air parts. Hope this helps.
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Hi Tom,
I was wondering if you were noting the trim tag data in your a/c research.
My #15,000 range Coupe is trim code 898E and it does not have a/c. This was confirmed to me by several past owners including the original owner.
The judging guide says that trim code 898E was supposed to have a/c.
Syd
[quote=Tom Christmann (1789);526200]I'm a little late on this thread, but I have been documenting 63 air cars since the early 80's (I also worked with Noland on the 63 air section in his book). I owned the Bunkie Knudsen serial 55 car and spoke with Bunkie personally, the car was a retrofit at the design center. I also have docs from the company that produced the molds for some of the ducts; they received the order to build molds in December and the molds did not physically exist until early January (that coincides with Nolands docs about an December release). Based on my list of about 150 air cars, personal inspection of many (and ownership of 6 including the big tank air car), production clearly began with cars serial number 13,000 and higher. I have no 12,000 cars on the survey, and two 11,000 cars that have not been documented. All cars below 13,000 that I have personally inspected do not have the correct, and unique to 63 only, air parts. Hope this helps.
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Hi Tom,
I was wondering if you were noting the trim tag data in your a/c research.
My #15,000 range Coupe is trim code 898E and it does not have a/c. This was confirmed to me by several past owners including the original owner.
The judging guide says that trim code 898E was supposed to have a/c.
Syd
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