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1965 Corvette Production Numbers

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1965 C2 Corvette

1965 Corvette Production Volumes

Strong sales continued in 1965 and Chevy pushed hard on production, growing sales volume for the third year in a row. In total, 23,562 units of the 1965 model year produced. Some very exciting things happened to the C2 generation 1965. This was the first year for the “Big Block” a 396ci, 425hp engine that needed a special hood to make room for the monster motor. The hood also has the funnel shaped “power blister” air scoop. The vertical louvers on the side of the car are now functional and the blacked out grill has horizontal bars. The depressions on the standard hood were removed.

Read more: 1965 Chevrolet Corvette research center.

1965 Production Volumes by Model Variant

Of the cars produced, 8,186 were coupes (34.74% of all cars produced) and 15,376 were convertibles (65.26% of all cars produced).

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1965 Production Volumes by RPO Codes & Colors

Below, we have broken out the 1965 Corvette production builds by RPO codes and options so you can see how popular or rare certain options were.

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