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Old 06-03-2002, 12:45 PM
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On another website we are talking about this car.
I was wondering if you have any knowledge to it actually being built.
We all know it is gone today,but some are saying there is no actual proof that it was built.
No insuarance records,pix,or Title search comes up with anything.I believe it stayed in Michigan.
Can you verify it was actually assembled and any other info?
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Default Re: Z16 Chevelle Convertible

Again the Dec /88 issue of Super Chevy has an atricle of a 65 Z16. Within the aerticle it states that the number of Z16 went from 200 to 201 due to a Z16 convt being built for someone in GM and that it is now in storage.
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Old 06-03-2002, 08:33 PM
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That was way before my time. I didn't start at GM as a college co-op until 1967.


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Default Re: Z16 Chevelle Convertible

I don't think there is any evidence of a convertible ever being built. they were supposed to build 200 Z-16s and they probably had enough parts to build 1 extra, but I don't think anyone can verify a convertible, I heard this rumor many years ago and it was supposed be Adobe Beige.
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Old 06-03-2002, 10:54 PM
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Default Re: Z16 Chevelle Convertible

From what I have read on the Z16s, the first was built in Baltimore as some sort of prototype. Then the production run of 200 built in KS. The 200 Z16 Chevelles were built with little variation in options or colors. Since the Z16s were ordered in similar configurations, it does not seem likely that any of the 200 production cars were convertibles but you never know until one gets found.
A Popular Mechanics Z16 article suggests there was some sort of special convertible 396 done in 1965 for Bunkie K.
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Old 06-03-2002, 11:53 PM
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Joe, I think you are right about the prototype, I think it belonged to F. Garrett, I do not think he has the car anymore.
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Old 06-05-2002, 07:52 PM
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Default Re: Z16 Chevelle Convertible

I seem to recall that when the accepted number went from 200 to 201, it was because a sedan had been discovered. I don't think that the speculation of a convertible was the reason for the number going to 201. Interesting story on the prototype that Floyd used to own: several other collectors had a shot at buying the car in the mid-1980's, but passed it off as bogus because it was not built on a convertible frame like all the rest. Noted Chevy collector Carl Dwiggins was one who passed. When Floyd found the car, he noticed an engineering tag on the air cleaner that indicated it was a prototype. Thru his connections at GM he found out that the car was indeed the first built and that it was the only one built on a non-boxed, reinforced convertible frame. Later, when having it restored, they discovered all of the special Z-16 emblems to be hand made.
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Default Re: Z16 Chevelle Convertible

Here is Terry Gunters link shows two Z-16
http://peachstatechevelles.com/terrygunter.html
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Old 06-05-2002, 10:46 PM
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Also the yellow Z-16 that Terry has was once owned by
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Old 06-05-2002, 10:57 PM
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This site states that there was one convertible built
http://cars.dozer.com/features/cheve...velle_z16.html
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