Info wanted: 1965 frunk lid CORVAIR placement

[scottymac]

Would appreciate diagram with measurements for placement of the CORVAIR emblem (and attachment pins) on the frunk lid.
Thank you very much! Scott

[azdave]

None of my Corvairs have frunks but I can get you the dimensions later tonight if no one else posts the info before I get to measuring.

[66vairguy]

FRUNK - These kids and there new fangled words.

Then again who came up with TRUNK? Oh wait, old cars only had a rack on the back to hold your TRUNK when you traveled.

At least we don't call it a BOOT (you know who you are across the pond)

Would a front BOOT be a FOOT ---- Oh stop me. Just having some fun.

[flamingchariots]

You have no sole...

[American Mel]

Boot precedes Trunk.
Old coaches had a boot.
The boot was a Leather covered cargo area on the rear of coaches where trunks and other luggage was stored.
Wells Fargo Stagecoaches had a second "Boot" under the front (Driver's) seat.
This is where the Strongbox and valuables were usually stored.
A guard would ride next to the Driver. (This is also where the term "Riding Shotgun" comes from)
So, front Boot is actually correct, or at least acceptable terminology.
Frunk is just plain stupid.

[azdave]

This pic shows a sheet of copy paper lined up at the LF hood corner and flush with the front edge. I can scan this as a pdf tomorrow at work and then send it as a pdf template that you could print at full scale to use. I didn't note it on the paper but the 4.5" and 8-7/16" dimension lines are at 90-degrees to the front edge. You can confirm the final hole spacing by checking the center to center which should be at 3-15/16"

[scottymac]

Thank you very much, Dave! I thought when Tesla started using the term "frunk", Corvairs could be seen as a trendsetter. Since I wasn't of driving age during most of Corvair's production years, would people say Corvairs were responsible for repopularizing the floor shift?

[Frank DuVal]

The Corvette always had a floor shifter, but most people never drove a Corvette. But they might have driven many foreign cars with a floor shift. Just ignore those few with a four speed column shifter. So, yes, Corvair brought back the every manual transmission in this economy car, wait, VW Beetle...., has a floor shift.

Note the location of the emblem holes has to line up with access below to install the emblem nuts. There should be lots of leeway.

[66vairguy]

The Corvette always had a floor shifter, but most people never drove a Corvette. But they might have driven many foreign cars with a floor shift. Just ignore those few with a four speed column shifter. So, yes, Corvair brought back the every manual transmission in this economy car, wait, VW Beetle...., has a floor shift.

Note the location of the emblem holes has to line up with access below to install the emblem nuts. There should be lots of leeway.

After WWII some returning GI's bought English sports cars and that was the start of associating a "floor shifter" with a sporting image. Fact is up until the late 1930's most U.S.A. cars had a floor shifter and the introduction of the column shifter was considered a big improvement in style and convenience by the public. I recall the 1939 Lincoln Zephyr had a shifter that protruded from the DASH BOARD. It looks odd, but actually works well. The late 30's Cord had a "pre-selector" that was like a mini shifter off the column. You moved the little lever through a gate to select the NEXT gear. When you depressed the clutch electric gizmos shifted the transmission.

During the 1940's only cheap cars and trucks had floor mounted shifters. Then automatics started to arrive and by the mid 50's dominated the automotive market. Then in the 60's the "floor shifter" became popular in "muscle cars", even on automatic shifted cars.

Things change and change back. That said the manual floor shifted transmission is becoming a novelty. At the cars and coffee my 66 more door gets comments like "I've never seen a four speed in a four door American car". Then I show them th engine and that is always interesting.