[FC] Corvanatics Digest, Vol 100, Issue 7

[Hugh Fowler]

Or one might look at the Fuller Dymaxion or the Stout Scarab of the 30's 
with rear positioned flat head V/8's, driver over the front wheels and the 
entrance in the side.

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> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:26:57 -0500
> From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [FC] First Minivan
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> Does everyone here agree that Dodge invented the minivan?
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> It just does not sit right with me!
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> Later, JR
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> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:06:30 -0400
> From: Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com>
> Subject: Re: [FC] First Minivan
> To: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
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> On May 21, 2013, at 11:26 PM, J R Read wrote:
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>> Does everyone here agree that Dodge invented the minivan?
>
> Nope :-)
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> Reading the description of the Greenbrier is very similar to Dodge's copy 
> on the intro of their minivan.  Of course the VW microbus has many of the 
> same characteristics.
>
> What Dodge really invented was the term, as far as I can tell.
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> --Bryan
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> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:22:47 -0400
> From: "Mike Clark" <mclark67 at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [FC] First Minivan
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> Actually if I remember right it was Lee Iacocca that had the idea for a 
> mini
> van while at Ford in the 60s.  Ole Lido kept the idea with him all those
> years until he headed Chrysler.  Odd that in that almost 20 year span no 
> one
> else came up with their own mini van.
>
> Of course the Corvan-type were out before Lee's idea(maybe that's where he
> got it) and of course Volkswagen had them all beat in the 50s.
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> I was just thinking the other day that this hadn't been brought up in a
> while.
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> Mike Clark
> 61 Rampside
> Stockbridge, Georgia
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> On May 21, 2013, at 11:26 PM, J R Read wrote:
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>> Does everyone here agree that Dodge invented the minivan?
>
> Nope :-)
>
> Reading the description of the Greenbrier is very similar to Dodge's copy 
> on
> the intro of their minivan.  Of course the VW microbus has many of the 
> same
> characteristics.
>
> What Dodge really invented was the term, as far as I can tell.
>
>
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