[FC] Re: Corvan versus Greenbriar and more

[David Ziegler, III]

Corvair vans have different doors from side to side. On my 8 door Greenbrier 
the front doors open before the rear doors on both sides.



Dave Ziegler
CORVAIR THERAPY
mechanical repair, light restoration




>From: EconoUSAParts at aol.com
>To: corvanatics at corvair.org
>Subject: [FC] Re: Corvan versus Greenbriar and more Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 
>21:49:54 EDT
>
>  "Paul Steinberg" <noahsarkinc at earthlink.net> wrote;
>
>       I once saw a FC/Greenbrier that had the side doors reversed, so the
>third side door would have to be opened before the middle side door would 
>open. 
>I was confused as to how this was accomplished at the time, but after 
>seeing a
>8 door van, I realized that they had swapped the left side doors for the
>right side doors.
>
>
>
>        Paul,now that's really odd to say the least. All early 8 door vans 
>I
>ve seen(Dodge,Ford,GM) use the same doors for both sides and even the rears 
>so
>all are interchangeable. That means they open differently when installed on
>the drivers side, ie; the rear door opens first on drivers side only. In 
>other
>words,it's always the right hand door that opens first. I realize Corvair 
>vans
>have a smaller rear door setup so those cant interchange with side doors.
>         Perhaps GM figured out their obvious production error with that 8
>door Corvair van option and corrected it when they produced the new 
>Chevy/GM van
>lineup in 64 which pretty much mimmicked the Ford lineup as did the 
>Dodge's.
>Granted both GM and Dodge improved on Ford's version but they had 3 years 
>to
>figure out the improvements too. Then Ford improved on both of those with 
>it's
>68-74 engine forward models and that's basically the same style van most
>companies still make today only with longer hoods, but that's another topic 
>all
>together.
>
>.
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