1965 Starfire

[petritl]

I have a few questions about a car I recently purchased

Are the coupe and convertible doors the same?
Are the exhaust pipe outlets available (quarter panel exit)?
Does anyone make the seatcovers for these cars?

Regards,
Tad

[Olds64]

I believe you can order generic seat covers for your car from companies like Kanter. Of course, this will just be a standard street rod tuck and roll.

[Larry Beekman]

I also have a 65 Starfire---Having a hard time finding trim parts--as far as the exaust parts, I'm having them made now if Fort Lauderdale will give you the info if they turn out well

[petritl]

Originally Posted by Larry Beekman

I also have a 65 Starfire---Having a hard time finding trim parts--as far as the exaust parts, I'm having them made now if Fort Lauderdale will give you the info if they turn out well

Thank you

[petritl]

Just how rare are these cars? I located another Blue green 65 Starfire conv. 4spd car 2.5 hours away from me. The car is in a body shop getting restored.

Tad

[Mister]

Originally Posted by petritl

Just how rare are these cars?

Tad

Starfires are still around, and I see some for sale online regularly. However they are far from ubiquitous. They are rare enough that finding some Starfire-specific parts can be impossible.

If it helps any, here are the 60's-era Starfire production numbers I scraped off the internet:

1961 (convertible only): 7600

1962 (coupe): 34,839
1962 (convertible) : 7149

1963 (coupe): 21,148
1963 (convertible): 4401

1964 (coupe): 13,753
1964 (convertible): 2401

1965 (coupe): 13,034
1965 (convertible): 2226

1966 (coupe only): 13,019

So you can see that production decreased after 1962. Just to put those in perspective, there were 187,097 Cutlasses and 1,046,514 Chevy Impallas sold in 1965 (according to Wikipedia).