61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

First try at file load.. Here's the tach and the instrument cluster (bent).

[Ian G.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

what a sad assemblage... you'll bring it back to its former glory!

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

More files...

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

The driver's side was toast - I will try to find the 'as picked up in March, 1966' photo... The firewall was split in two at the seam, so I had the top half in the two pix.

Is there any way to be sure the hole was factory-cut? It looks like the straight sides were 'slightly angled' downward, like they were using a hole saw for the ends and then reaching down into the engine compartment with a sabre saw to cut the straight part. There are tooth marks on the straight parts and seem to be hole saw swirls on the round part.

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

A better pic of the tach...

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

For John DeGregory, a few 380 units to hold the firewall piece up with.

The hole detail for the post above... looks like the straight cut started on the passenger side and ended on the driver's side.

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

More pix, will explain if they load up.l...

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

Hotrod Parts Illustrated - the best place to find stuff before algore invented the internet.

THE ADD -

61 vette, yes. Wrecked, VERY! - Minus eng, sadly. That story would pick up after the TET in 1968.

Minus frt body components - see other pix.

Has complete chassis - yes. No frame damage - what a crock! It was bent so bad we almost burned the tread off the left front tire in 20 miles!

Posi rear, YES! The 4 speed was missing, so he offered a 3 speed he had.

Complete dash - instrument cluster, etc. bent and damaged. See earlier posts.

Partial interior - actually, mostly there, including the seats and the inside of the driver's door. We found the outside of the door just before we left for home.

Complete soft top, right door and right rear body, not bad. Hood and chrome - BAD.

Car towable - HAH!!!!!

When you are a few hundred miles from home, you take the deal.

62 vette, next add down - GONE when I called him. (SIGH!!!!!)

Last two pictures...

The '56 hooked up - the right fender stopped just past the heater.

FRAME OFF!!! Billy on the left, Willy on the right - you can see the floorboard and reinforcement just to the left of Billy's knee. The doorjam is laying on the ground. The left side ahead of the door was gone.

The windshield and its surrounding parts were almost undamaged, just a little pushed on the driver's side enough to crack the shield. I still have the NYS 1965-1966 inspection sticker.

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

I'm going to try finding the tach drive cable in the parts pile in the trunk. I might have a jack in there, too!!!

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

From the above picture of the car in tow, is there enough of the right fender to see the fuel injection emblem hole? How far toward the front of the car was it located? The assembly manual fuel injection section doesn't seem to say?

[Bruce B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

If you are referring to picture #4 in the previous post there is no way to see where the FI emblem was mounted.
In addition the presence of holes means nothing, lots of FI emblems were put on non fuel injected cars cars.
From all the information and pictures presented I see no way to prove the car was originally fuel injected.

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

I see some fuelie info in the Assembly Manual about routing some wire/hose though the passenger-side hole that was used for the tach cable on a carb car.

Is there something on the firewall or the battery well/fender well that was unique to a fuel car? Some of those pieces survived.

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

Anybody with a 61 non-fuelie car - is there anything running through the hole on the passenger side of the hood release cable hole, other than the tach cable?

[Will B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

The 61 carb car I saw had just the tach cable running through this hole, through a bushing with just one hole.

[Bruce B.]

Re: 61 tach reads 'registers twice cable speed' - fuelie?

Will,
I see you live in Ohio.
If you would like to look at a number of 61 & 62 fuel injected Corvettes in one place take a ride to ProTeam in Napolean, Ohio.
They currently have 1 61 fi car and 3 62 FI cars and probably some other ones
Give them a call, I'm sure they would help you out.
Seeing is believing.