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Offline freddie.zee65

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Front Park Light ?
« on: April 11, 2014, 04:39:55 PM »
I looked at 4 65 GS's today side by side. It appears that 2 had smaller front park lights and 2 larger. Can someone chime in for the reason that this would be? Was there a mid year change? The owner says they are all original. I have 2 bumpers at home and they have the smaller version in them.

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Re: Front Park Light ?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2014, 06:06:22 PM »
The smaller holes belong to a Special/Sportwagon bumper. Skylarks had the larger opening.
The smaller parking light bumper wouldn't be original to a GS. The front bumpers are pretty
fragile (in my opinion) I can imagine a good number of originals were changed out. Decent
front bumper cores are pretty hard to find now.

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Re: Front Park Light ?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2014, 10:17:00 PM »
Fred,
Whose cars are you looking at?

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Re: Front Park Light ?
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2014, 07:30:36 AM »
There is a fellow up here in Northern Illinois that has 12 of these cars. Some are parts cars and some are done cars. He has a cross section of large lights and small. I have found some nice bumper cores but with small lights. The cars show Gran Sport badging. Some hardtops, converts and post cars.

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Offline Robk

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Re: Front Park Light ?
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2014, 04:18:24 PM »
Fred,

Does he sell parts/cars?  Are any of the cars 4 speeds or 3 speeds?


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