1965 pop

[John S.]

I was trolling known Corvette web sites and there is a 65 fuelie car for sale here in So. Cal. Shows a picture of the POP. The POP is blank with all the typical vin and other numbers in the "GM" tape like they would use for the new owners name and address typically. My POP is more the standard and I believe original as I have the NCRS POP book and all the "flaws match up with mine. Has this ever been discussed before? Has anyone ever seen this before?

[William C.]

Re: 1965 pop

A picture might be helpful...

[John S.]

Re: 1965 pop

Bill,

Best I can do is copy and paste the link to the web site. Hope this does not upset anyone.

http://www.gmdownunder.com/consign174-65vet.html

John

[Bob H.]

Re: 1965 pop

Didn't the dealer imprint the plate? If so, I think it is plausible to have not been imprinted. Looks nice. Wonder why such a nice car has never been judged?

[John H.]

Re: 1965 pop

The POP is not original (or typical), and neither is the window sticker.

[Mike E.]

Re: 1965 pop

Here as an images of a POP from a car that ProTeam has for sale that's within a month or so after and the one you posted the link to.

There is big difference between the two.

Note: I've reversed them to make easier to read.







Mike

[Roy S.]

Re: 1965 pop

Didn't the dealer imprint the plate? If so, I think it is plausible to have not been imprinted. Looks nice. Wonder why such a nice car has never been judged?

The factory imprinted the plate, the dealer added the GM Dymo tape with the new owners name and data.

[Roy S.]

[Patrick B.]

Re: 1965 pop

When a car was sold and the second owner obtained the remaining warrantee, I believe the dealer made the second owner's protecto-plate. Many dealers had addressograph machines. Could this be a second owners POP made by a dealer who had the DYMO tape equipment but not a Addressograph?

[Roy S.]

Re: 1965 pop

When a car was sold and the second owner obtained the remaining warrantee, I believe the dealer made the second owner's protecto-plate. Many dealers had addressograph machines. Could this be a second owners POP made by a dealer who had the DYMO tape equipment but not a Addressograph?

I guess it could, I've never seen one like it and we all know you should never say never.

[Michael H.]

Re: 1965 pop

When a car was sold and the second owner obtained the remaining warrantee, I believe the dealer made the second owner's protecto-plate. Many dealers had addressograph machines. Could this be a second owners POP made by a dealer who had the DYMO tape equipment but not a Addressograph?

Patrick,

I don't remember ever seeing an address-o-graph machine in a dealer from that era. Those machines were huge and very expensive.

I vaguely remember that dealers were instructed to remove and replace the dymo tape with the new 2nd owners information at point of resale.

If an original warranty book was lost in the 60's, the dealer (or zone office?) could replace it with an new unstamped version.

[Carl N.]

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Just FYI and has no bearing on this '65. Plains Chevrolet in Amarillo Texas had an address-o-graph machine which was used for plates for mass mailings several times a year to past customers. Also it was not uncommon for some of the small dealers in the Texas Oklahoma Panhandle area to fail to place the DYMO tape on the plates. Some of these dealers seldom sold a Corvette, but sold lots and lots of pick-em-ups and when they came in for service in some cases the protecto plate was kept at the dealership for the customer.

[Mark L.]

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Patrick, I agree with your comment. My 67 came with two POP's...the original and one that was made by the dealer for the second owner as the car was still under warranty. The replacement was imprinted just like the original however one close look at each can ID the one from the factory.

[Tim G.]

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I'm not sure if it is the same car, but a maroon/maroon '65 fuelie roadster was at Frisco two years ago. It received a Top Flight. That car had no paperwork.

[Joel F.]

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I'm not sure if it is the same car, but a maroon/maroon '65 fuelie roadster was at Frisco two years ago. It received a Top Flight. That car had no paperwork.

I sort of doubt it could be; few dealers would fail to mention something as significant as a TF when they gave a good deal of detail on things like casting dates and stampings.

What does the group think of the pad?