[SCG] "last Corvair built" and Charlie

[Jerry Brown]

You are so right!   Jerry
--- Mark Corbin <airvair at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I swear, somebody ought to buy the car as a
> mercy-purchase, then separate
> it from that infamous letter and send it on its
> merry way. The letter
> should then end up in the CPF museum archives, just
> for laughs.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > Subject: Re: [SCG] "last Corvair built" and
> Charlie
> >
> > Hi,
> > Yes, Bill, I know all about it. The whole story is
> in "1969 Fingertip
> Facts", the book that Mark Ellis and I did about
> 1969 Vairs. The book was
> published by Clark's Corvair and is available
> through them.
> > This is a story that just won't die. The car is
> indeed 5214, and is the
> last Corvair sold by GM, but not the last one built.
> It was the last of a
> group of '69 Corvairs retained by GM, and was
> offered at auction to Chevy
> dealers in 1975.
> > Unfortunately a letter accompanied the car,
> stating that "regardless of
> serial number" it was the last Corvair built. The
> Chevy sales department
> executive who wrote the letter has admitted that the
> car was not the last
> one, not only to me but to an internal GM auditor
> who made him sign another
> letter to that effect. The bottom line was that he
> misinterpreted what was
> told to him by Chevy's manufacturing manager, who
> also told me that the car
> was just the last Vair that GM sold.
> > It's interesting that RM auctions contacted Mark
> last month, asking about
> the authenticity of the car. Mark told them the real
> story and thought they
> believed and understood it. RM is selling the car
> for Art Astor, would
> never accept what we had to say about 5214. I
> suspect that what he had paid
> for the car made the truth a bitter pill to swallow
> and he didn't want to
> devalue his investment.
> > Likewise, RM probably hopes to get a lot more for
> the car by perpetuating
> the myth. They're guilty of false advertising as far
> as I'm concerned.
> > Dave Newell
> >
> > -- Wrsssatty at aol.com wrote:
> > The current (June '08) issue of Hemmings includes
> an ad listing "the last
> 
> > Corvair built" to be auctioned at RM Auctions.  I
> called and was told
> it's  # 
> > 5214.  Does anyone know what the story is here? 
> If you want to call 
> them, the 
> > number is: (800) 211-4371.
> >
> > BTW, Guess who else is advertising Corvairs now in
> Hemmings?  Our very 
> own 
> > Charlie!  His ad reads:
> >
> > "CORVAIR, Corvair, Corvair, since 1961, send SASE
> with inquiry. Corvair,  
> > Corvair, Corvair, "   Well, you already know the
> address!
> >
> > ~Bill Stanley
> >
> 
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