Early A K-member help

slantsixdan wrote: "The '62 B-body cars do not use the same K-frame as any A-body cars. There are no shared body panels between '62 A-bodies and '62 B-bodies. The '63 Plymouths (and the '64s) were B-bodies, not C-bodies; the first year for a C-body Plymouth was 1965."

Thanks for correcting me, Dan!

"And that thing about how the '62 B-bodies were emergency-downsized because of an overheard garden party GM exec comment about the upcoming '62 Chev is a silly myth."

Myth or not, it is persistent. Even Collectible Automobile states in its December, 1996 article about the aborted Plymouth Super Sport that William Newberg of Chrysler heard it from Ed Cole of GM when they played golf together, and even names the specific golf course where they played. The source that Collectible Auto relied upon was William Brownlie, a retired Chrysler styling and production executive.

Dan, now you've got me curious: Why, in the absence of the claimed misinformation that Newberg thought he heard from Ed Cole, do you think Chrysler decided against producing the Super Sport in favor of the smaller '62 Plymouth?

The "misunderstanding" scenario makes sense to me: Newberg didn't understand that Cole was saying GM was going to come out with the Chevelle as a new model, and would continue to produce the Bel Air/Impala. Newberg's misunderstanding was in thinking GM was going to drop the Bel Air/Impala entirely in favor of the Chevelle.

I do note that the 2018 article by Paul Niedermeyer, referred to in your link, says Chrysler decided to make the '62 Plymouth smaller merely as a cost-cutting measure, because the Plymouth was too expensive to produce, and that the Super Sport essentially became the 1961 Plymouth.

The Niedermeyer article seems rather long-winded, even bloviated, as it endlessly discusses irrelevant matters, as if he was being paid by the word or something. This is the first time I've ever heard about any "garden party". The CA article said it happened when they played golf. And although Niedermeyer names William Brownlie as a stylist who was directly involved with the Plymouth styling team, his article seems to ignore everything that Brownlie said in the Collectible Automobile article, nor does Niedermeyer even acknowledge the Collectible Automobile article's existence. I therefore submit that perhaps the Niedermeyer article represents revisionist history.

One more item: The Schumacher A-body LA engine mount kits (even their engine hold-down turnbuckle kit), which are advertised as fitting only '63-'66 A-body K-frames, also fit a '62 just fine.