Model changes for cv-16 and cvx-16

[nes-cv23]

You all know I've got issues with the 73 I just got, so list see if we can define year differences.   My 73 looks like a 73, with a 76 dash and color.  When year did they change the models from cv to cvx? I thought it was 76-77? ... Windshield change? ... Colors?       GO!

[Hyperacme]

My best guess on CV16 history ... Feel free to add or correct ...

Late 1968 - Early 1969






Some where in 1970 ...
The ad states "No Options".
Navigation lights are on corners by wind shield.
Cleats are half way up deck.
Nothing about color, but Carlson had Apricot/Blue/Marigold for options.
Dates on two articles 1970, boat test has same Nav. light/cleat location.

 




1971 CV16 ...

Sand with Apricot or Green ... Same year CV19 color is listed as "Lakewood Avocado"
Foot note in brochure " On Carlson boats, lights, windshield and padded dash are optional "
Early CV had hull/decks and rub rail joined with rivet's until 1974.
Can't find an exact date for the start of operations at the Anaheim factory.
There is a picture of it in the 1972 brochure though.
The 1970 CV16 must have been built at the Carlson Garden Grove factory

From 1971 brochure.






Pretty sure this vinyl is very close to the green used in 1971 ...



This is the Apricot used in 1971 ... The pictures of vinyl are from a 1971 and had the numbers " 69 - 6 " written in pencil on back.
Not sure if it's a part number for vinyl, that piece of vinyl or the year of the vinyl ?







1971 Hull and serial number plate ... Not sure if hull changed at all between 1970 and 1976 ?




1972 CV16 ...
Colors were Sand with Blue or Gold.
Windshield, Nav. lights and padded dash were standard.
The CV16SS was new in Sand with Gold.




1973 CV16 ...
Colors were White with Blue or Apricot.
Looks like same boat with the addition of White hull instead of sand and Apricot flake.
Guessing some Apricot CV's were built in late 1972 ...
CV16SS were White with Gold or Apricot.





Blue boat pictured below is said to be a near perfect 1973 CV.










All 1973 and earlier CV's had the GT emblem on there deck.



Windshield on 1973 and earlier had a rubber strip around bottom and were bolted to deck with small alu. blocks on edges/corners.









1974 CV16 ...

CV16 colors were White with Green or Plum
Big changes in 74 for the outboard ...
CV16SS style windshield with bottom aluminum bar, plastic dash, hump in deck, 18 gal. fuel tank under bow, horn box on deck, G/C sticker/ wood grain strip replaces COOL alu. G/C plate on stern and the deck emblem changed from the "GT" to the "CV'.
But didn't get the recess around gas filler that all CV16SS's have.
CV16SS colors were White with Green or Blue.
First year of the full wrap around plastic dash on the CV16SS.














1994 and latter CV deck emblem.




1975 CV16 ...

Colors were White with Blue or Plum.
No changes from 1974.
CV16SS was White with Bronze.
Also unchanged.




This was the first year of the CV16V8 ...
Color was White and Plum.






1976 was the last year of the CV's ...
CV16 were White & Red or Light Blue & Blue ...
CV16SS were White & Red or Silver & Gray
CV16V8 were White & Orange


Steering wheel changed on all models.



Seats have a quilted pattern, knee pad above splash well isn't pleated.




I have seen a few 1976 CV16 in Silver & Gray.

[nes-cv23]

Wow that's a great result, just what I was looking for. Now I have to figure out why my 73 looks like the 76 with the 76 dash and the 76 color but is stamped 73 in the serial no. I'm very sure the color is original because there is some damage on it and you can see that it goes all the way to the fiberglass underneath. And also if the dash can be brought back to the 73 style.    Any thought that this boat could have been a model of what they had in mind for later years?    Or just a Frankenstein...     

[Oldfishguy]

Great job Gregg on the CV16 history!

As far as your 1973 hull looking like a 1976 model . . . It is anyone's guess but I have one scenario:

Since 1976 was the last year of the CV16, any hulls they still had around the factory (for any reason) were used up with the 1976 model year colors, dash, interiors.  They made a lot of these CV16's, so to have a few hulls around the factory for a time after I don't think would be abnormal.  It might have been fitted with test gear for a time, used as a factory display, etc.

Just my guess though.

[Hyperacme]

Some additions and edits to post.

It could have been a special order, a test hull to see how the red looked or just a boat used for testing that got damaged and repaired at a latter date.
Who knows ...

Are there any pieces of vinyl left from original interior, I found some on my CV between deck and the boards on side of splash well / splash well curtain.

Is your deck emblem a GT or CV ? 

[nes-cv23]

I think the deck emblem has cv on it, and the interior was pleated "lines" not "square" pattern to it. The boat is in my folks pole barn up north and on the next time we go there I'm going to take more pictures of everything to help in the research. I'm in the paint stage for the cvx I'm working on now and will have that one done before spring. And then I can get serious on this one.  Silver one is done and sold the blue one is almost. This red one will stay with me and the 23