(Updated July, 2014)
The hunt for the last few Fisher Body tag accessory codes for 1961 through 1967 is in the home stretch. Announced in the January 2006 CORSA Communique, the contest has so far awarded a total of $135 in gift certificates. This information has been incorporated into the online version of the article published in the May 2005 Communique.
Here is your chance to win a gift certificate to Clark's Corvair Parts. If you provide conclusive evidence to define any of the codes below, you will receive a $50 gift certificate. If you provide evidence for an item that needs confirmation, you get a $25 gift certificate. Note: I reserve the right to correct any mis-statements below about what we are looking for. I checked the list several times but there is always a chance that I did not describe a particular item accurately.
The data we are looking for is on the last line of the Fisher Body tag, which is in the engine compartment on the rear frame rail. Remember that cars built at Willow Run and Van Nuys (Los Angeles) have numerical separators between the groups of option codes, except for the first group ("1" is omitted).
What you will need to do is to send pictures of the Fisher Body tag and of the option(s) of interest.
Here is what we are looking for:
1961 (KS = Kansas, OA = Oakland)
- Any KS car with factory air conditioning. $25 (must provide pictures of tag, as well under-dash AC unit and '61-specific green compressor)
- Any 500 or 700-series OA sedan with factory rear door armrests. $25
1962 (OA = Oakland)
- Any 500 or 700-series OA sedan with factory rear door armrests. $25
1963 (OA = Oakland, VN = Van Nuys, WR = Willow Run)
- Any VN car with a P in group 3. $25
- Any car with factory heater delete. $50
- Any OA non-Monza with factory fold-down rear seat. $50
- Any 700-series sedan with factory rear door armrests. $25
1964
- Any car with Z in group 5. This will appear only on cars with a body build date of October through December, 1963. $25
1966 (LOS = Los Angeles, WRN = Willow Run)
- Any LOS model 500 sedan with factory headrest bench front seats. $50
- Any car with factory seat belt delete (exported cars only). $25
1967
- Any sedan with factory non-deluxe rear center seat belt. $25
- Any car with factory heater delete. $25
- Any car with factory non-deluxe front shoulder belts. $25
- Any car with factory seat belt delete (exported cars only). $25
I hope you find this fun. It's also very important historical research that we have to do now if we are ever going to get the answers! You can email me by clicking on the CorvairKid Enterprises link in the footer of page.