Easy Rhino

Lots of mismatched parts with looks like a 64 interior, a 66-67 grill and who knows what else. Pretty car but has 'stories.'
I may be off on this one but what years are the voltage regulator and horn relay on top of the right side of the radiator frame? On my '65 they're just aft of the radiator frame on passenger side inner fender wall.

larebob

Normally I steer away from critical remarks and items of taste, but at almost any price, I'd advise against considering this car. Specifics would be nice in my appraisal, but there is so much "gut feel" to go with obvious stuff that I just want to say "Better stuff available - with ease".

bradc6

Also has 66 hubcaps.

Huge aftermarket side pipes and they left the rear exhaust tips in place?

Factoid

Wow, what a mess. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

Hard to see but I wonder what the frame vin says? Also, does the title match the fraudulent vin on the vin plate? It would be interesting to know at what point in its history the vin was washed.

Run, Forest, run!

Nowhere Man

That looks to be a correct 65 vin tag and formate. The car has a 64 complete interior. Why the trim tag has screws holding it on is beyond me. The vin is early enough to have the standard pop rivets.

65GGvert

Did you miss the 9 after the 1?

Vet65te

The undercarriage pics are quite dark but it sure looks like it's got 4-Wheel Disc Brakes.
Mike T - Prescott AZ

Easy Rhino

The more people look at this one the more it appears to be a very pretty Frankencar.

pop23235

I don’t see anything wrong with the VIN plate. It just might be on the wrong car.
It is a C2, 65/66 front fenders, 66/67 grill, not a 327 engine (probably 350), 64 interior, but all C2 except the engine.

leif.anderson93

I wasn't aware that they made over 90,000 Corvettes in 1965.

67:72

There is no car it belongs to — it's got the correct 1965 Corvette alpha-numeric sequence to the S1 and then goes wonky with the 9!
I wonder what the glass date codes are... (I'm betting they are '65.)

I'ma thinkin' a '65 frame and birdcage was used to transfer all of the '64 interior parts into. Why not keep the '65 interior? Only a few folks know the answer to that.

Nowhere Man

i see that extra digit now. That could be just an error. But why the car has a complete 64 interior raise more questions. Some deep looking at the car to figure out what year the tub started out as is in order

65GGvert

It's not just an extra digit, it's an impossible digit to follow the S1. The highest possible number in that location would be a 2

am6174uh

Thanks all for the help, obviously going to pass. Really thankful for this forum and everyone’s input. The search continues

66jack

Built by johnny cash...

joewill

That 9 could or should be a zero, one or two. the factory maybe did mistamp some. but run the corvette birthday calculator, plug in a zero , one, and two to see approximate birthday. then see what lines up with the body build date on the trimtag.
get the real VIN off of the title or extrapolate the real vin off the engine/trans/frame if possible
look for dates on other places of the car ( rear end, doors, speedometer sticker, clock, intake/exhaust manifold/carb. there might be a original part with a date on it somewhere.
as stated, the rosette rivets started at a certain point and if the date is past corvette birthday for around 7000, then the VIN tag has been removed.
if it should have rosette rivets and does not, the watch out.... and vice versa.
look behind the Z bar, behind the rivets, zoom in take a macro pic. the back of the rivets will tell a tale too ( wrong depth, signs of replacement, etc.
do the diligence with the DMV, ask them. there a chance they don't care and ignore these discrepancies on older cars.. or they may confiscate the car. or give it a state VIN when you try to register it.

Nothing wrong with a frankencar, you just have to buy it at a good price. If you require original, then you gotta pay for it.
IMO anything with a vin or a title issue is a parts car.. but.. a parts car may be worth 30K or more

pop23235

Just a question: St Louis built other lines, including trucks. Did they have the “S”? Corvette is a “Y” body in most GM literature I’ve seen.

Nowhere Man

they built Impalas there as well and their vin had the S in them

67:72

Correct, and the 2nd and 3rd positions are the series — "97" indicates Corvette. Impalas used a bunch of series for the different configurations while Corvette only had one. Impalas were also made at a number of different plants while Corvette had/has just one.

1965-71 Chevy Impala / Full Size VIN Series:
53 = Biscayne 6 Cylinder
54 = Biscayne 8 Cylinder
55 = Bel Air 6 Cylinder
56 = Bel Air 8 Cylinder
63 = Impala 6 Cylinder
64 = Impala (1965-71)
65 = Impala SS (1965) 6 Cylinder
66 = Impala SS (1965)

The Y-body platform designation for Corvette began in '76. It used the Z-series VIN designation in '72 and after but I don't know if it even had a platform designation prior to '76.

bluestreak63

How is it priced? Looks like a dealer? Which means they will not know too much about it. Good thing you came here.