I have a customer that is telling me that you could not get Red Interior with the Sebring Silver (941) Exterior on Fuel Injection Split-Windows, He said the only color interior you could get with the FI was black. Does anyone know if he is correct or could you get the Red Interior with the Sebring Silver FI cars?
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
I believe you could have had any color you wanted if you ordered a car. The dealer may have insisted on a healthy deposit on something too oddball, as it would be hard to sell to someone else. Also, the pocket spec guide says, all available interior colors would have been OK with the Sebring Silver. I would say you received BAD information.
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
Welcome to the forum, Aaron. Yep, he got bad info.
I am not aware of any restriction on interior colors with fuel injection.
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
Thank you for your response. I also thought you could order any color interior with a FI car. The reason I asked is, we are restoring a 63 Split-Window FI car in my shop and with all the numbers matching and color codes stating that color combo that is the way we are going to put it back to. But this one customer questioned it that is why I wanted to ask before I went any farther. Thanks again for all your help.Comment
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
I have owned two real 1963 FI coupes. One was silver blue with dark blue interior and the other was Daytona blue with red interior. The first was very attractive, the second not so much. Both were consistent with the trim tag.Comment
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
As Lynn mentioned, in each year of production there was a 'recommended' color list that defined interior/exterior color combinations. BUT, it's ALWAYS been Chevrolet policy that a customer could order their car built with ANY combination of regular production colors.
This did NOT make the car a 'special' (COPO) and the trim tag would document that combination. Example: red exterior with saddle/tan interior was on the recommended list in '70 and '72 but NOT there in '71.
Once in a while we DO see a '71 show up for judging in red/saddle and the 'knee jerk' reaction of judges with lesser experience is to assume the car is 'fake' or owner altered. But, there WERE a reasonable (albeit small) number of these cars made which may be why that combination retured to the recommended list for 1972...Comment
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Re: 1963 Split-Window Fuel Injection
Aaron, while at a Chevy dealer's used car lot in Fort Wayne, IN. looking at a '62 Corvette a car hauler pulled up in front of the dealership with new '63's. On top at the back was a Sebring Silver, FI, with red interior. I had seen a silver/red a couple of years before and was impressed. I watched the car unloaded and taken inside where I looked it over. 'beautiful car.
While working in a grocery store in Butler, IN. I walked out back and looked 90 degrees to my right to the back of Maxton Motors. There was a new '63 FI, Dayton Blue, Saddle leather, no wheel covers, and Firestone 170 racing tires. Also, a beautiful car.
As others have stated, you could mix and match colors as you pleased.Comment
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