[FC] Re: display vans and such

Tue Jul 6 12:25:01 2004

  When I was in Japan at Misawa AB, my boss bought a 61 Corvan from the
O'Club...100 bucks and then we found a ton of new parts down at the base
salvage yard waiting to be cut into scrap!  I mean new too not Ultra!!  He
fixed it up and took it back to the states with him when he PCS'd and was
still driving it a year later when I went to see him.  I think that the
O'Club is in part funded with non- appropriated funds like the PX/BX
operations so it is still considered "military"....but I could be wrong!!

  Del Patten...CNM

-----Original Message-----
From: corvanatics-admin@corvair.org
[mailto:corvanatics-admin@corvair.org]On Behalf Of Rad Davis
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:14 AM
To: corvanatics@corvair.org
Subject: Re: [FC] Re: display vans and such

I don't know about "the Military" but I do know that at least one Corvan 
(which used to, maybe still is owned by Louis Pinard) was the PX delivery 
van on a US Navy base.

At 09:50 AM 7/4/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/4/2004 12:37:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>corvanatics-request@corvair.org writes:
>
>
> > That sounds very much like a telephone company van.... windows on the
> > passenger side and no windows on the drivers side.  The rear doors
>sometimes
> > had windows in them and other times not.  I have also seen some vans
where
> > the
> > side doors were reversed in the one that opened first.  GM made a lot of
> > strange custom jobs for the utility companies back then.  If it was at
all
> > possible, then they would accommodate the utility with whatever they
wished
> > for... Paul in CT
> >
>
>    Paul,Ma Bell was probably the most common purchaser of these vans but
>several other companies used them also. When you figure how many vans the
>fleet
>companies would order at one time then you aint just whistling Dixie when
you
>say they would accommodate them with whatever they wished for. Money talks.
>        So while I ve got the mike,did the military order Corvair vans and
>pickups for their fleets? I know they used Ford,Dodge and GM.
>
>                                                        Tim in Ky
>                                                 Econo USA Parts
>                                  Your used 61-67 Econoline parts source
>                                Constantly parting out E100 vans and trucks
>                                             A100 parts also available
>
>                                                   Ebay Falcon1966
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