'65 Corvette Convertible, #s 365hp/4-sp, Mostly Orig Paint, Transistorized Ignition

[x44d80]

I purchased a 365HP 327 out of wrecked Corvette and stuck it in my 1st 1969 Camaro. I swear it could bury my Sun Super tach. I never had another SBC that could rev like that.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by 67since67

Not unusual for C2 odometers to quit working, while the speedo continues to work.

Don't they go to 99,999 and start over at 0, like all the other GM's of that era ?


Love the all BLUE color...
I saved and enlarged the pic and the date looks like 5/3/76

[MJV1953]

My experience with most C2 Corvettes in the mid 70s was that the odometer was broken between 39,000 and 55,000 miles while the speedometer kept working. Being they were our daily drivers there was little incentive to pull the dash just to fixed the odometer when the speedometer and all the other gauges worked just fine. Of the seven C2 Corvette I had in the mid 70s only one had a working odometer because it had 38,000 miles on it. Me and my first C2 Corvette fall of 1973 with a broken odometer.

[60sStuff]

My hair looked just like that back in the day.

Great photo! Thanks for sharing.

Chris.

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by 60sStuff

My hair looked just like that back in the day.

Great photo! Thanks for sharing.

Chris.

Yep, if it didn't touch your shoulders, it wasn't long enough yet.

[olredalert]

----One of the reasons the odometers broke in 63 to 67 Corvettes was people trying to zero out the trip odometer while the car was moving. It would strip a small nylon gear. Not hard to fix, but the whole cluster had to come out and a lot of guys just didn't want to attempt that, me included, although I have probably had 50 or more clusters out over the years for one thing or another!.....Bill S

[mockingbird812]

Originally Posted by olredalert

----One of the reasons the odometers broke in 63 to 67 Corvettes was people trying to zero out the trip odometer while the car was moving. It would strip a small nylon gear. Not hard to fix, but the whole cluster had to come out and a lot of guys just didn't want to attempt that, me included, although I have probably had 50 or more clusters out over the years for one thing or another!.....Bill S

... 50 or more clusters.....

[olredalert]

Originally Posted by mockingbird812

... 50 or more clusters.....

----Most were just restorations, Sam. New faces or complete gauge replacement. Several had already been out and done wrong. Most common was putting the concave glass in backwards (convex). The faces were concave to cancel out reflections. I still see that mistake today, sometimes to nice Vette's otherwise......Bill S

[mockingbird812]

All good info. I am not disputing that odometers can stop working. My point is that the seller is misleading when he states, “.....this possibly could be correct.” The current owner knows whether the odometer is working now or not. That is a foul in my book.

[L78M22Rag]

Another very similar Corvette... purported to be a 365 hp wearing original paint but the interior has been redone.

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/293912966371