[FC] The Retro Corvair - Rampside

[Dale Dewald]

Hello All,

As is usually the case, most good ideas have been thought up before by 
someone else in some other place...

About 4 to 6 years ago I read a review in AutoWeek about a Pontiac Montana 
(GM Dustbuster style minivan) pickup created by an auto conversion shop in 
the Detroit area.  It was more like a Loadside as it did not have a side 
ramp, but was along the same theme as the Rampside/Loadside series.  The 
conversion company did a first rate job and designed the pieces so that it 
could be an alternate model either built on the GM assembly line or in the 
conversion company's shop using an "incomplete" vehicle.  I never heard 
anything more about it.  Apparently GM didn't bite...

Dale Dewald
Hancock, (UP) MI

At 07:14 AM 10/12/04 -0700, Paul Fox wrote:
>Tim and group,
>           I agree that GM should and could make a Rampside replacement. 
> All they need to do is rework the front drive van platform  to make a bed 
> like the Rampy's. In fact, it would be a bigger bed because the 
> drivetrain is up front.