Dan, I am afraid that you are entirely too argumentative
That's fine. Don't like my posts? Don't read 'em. Don't wanna see my posts? Block me; problem solved. I got nothin' personal against you. When inaccurate information is put up, and I know how to correct it, I'm sometimes gonna.
Even Wikipedia lists the early Aussie Valiants as RV1 and RV2,
Every last reliable source, including Chrysler Australia Limited's own literature, says what I said the case is. There is nothing such as an RV2 Valiant. And since you mention it, that's also what Wikipedia
actually says (also
here and
here): RV1 and SV1, not RV1 and RV2 (and no, it's not 'cause I put it there LOL). Google agrees, too, see
here and
here and then
here's what happens when we ask Google to show us a search for RV2 Valiant without results that include RV1 (you may be confusing two memories; the two models of Chrysler 2-cylinder air conditioning compressor are V2 and RV2).
that is how I have always known them
It's possible to hold a mistaken belief for many years before stumbling on the actual facts. We've all done it, at least with song lyrics, otherwise sites like
this wouldn't exist.
Back to Valiants: you needn't believe me. Go see what
the Aussies who fuss over these cars say. You can also read reliable sources yourself, and learn what you didn't know before. I've attached two of them for you: the first bunch of pages from Chrysler Australia's factory parts cattledog for the R through VF ('62-'69) Valiants plus a random page showing the various models (RV1, SV1, AP5, AP6, VC, VE, VF) across the top, and a selection of pages from "The Valiant Book", an excellent and comprehensive history of the Valiant in Australia. Y'welcome.
Now, what's more likely, you crossed up your info or I went to the trouble to design, typeset, print, scan, and PDF these pages just in case someday someone came along and said something that could be disproven with my hard work? C'mon.
but you've got to take issue with the accepted nomenclature!
The nomenclature you're using isn't "accepted", it's mistaken. What we're talking about is not complicated. It's laid out in the front of every factory service manual and every factory parts catalog, it's not special esoteric knowledge; you don't gotta have a secret password or anything, LOL—just see attached from the '61 and '62 FPCs. The first instance of a "V2" model was "VV2", the new-for-1964 V8 Valiant (I've attached the same page from the '64 FPC, too).
And I've already stated that I have installed Aussie window rubber in my '62 U.S. V-200, and that it fits fine
Excellent. What bodystyle is your car?
but you're telling me it won't fit
I didn't say it won't fit. I said check the FPC first before fitting a seal made for one bodystyle on a different bodystyle.
I'm really tired of arguing with you.
And yet…here we are, eh!
