<VV> Corvair Firsts (ad naseum)

[Bob Earls]

<First American Production Vehicle with an aluminum block

Many cars used aluminum crankcases topped off with cast iron cylinder/water
jacket units.  Packard 8 cylinder crankcases were aluminum until mid-30s.
Franklins were all aluminum crankcases.  Franklin made air-cooled V-12s in
33-34.

<First Air Cooled.

Certainly not the first air cooled.  However it was not even Chevrolet's first
air-cooled.  Chevy made an air cooled 4-cylinder in  (I believe)1927.  They
produced something like 1200 of them.  They were such an unmitigated disaster
that Chevy bought back all (most) of them and dumped them in San Francisco
Bay.  I believe there's only 1 or 2 in existence.

<First to use unitized body construction

Hudson and Nash right after the war.  Chrysler (most of their car lines) in
late 50s

<First to have a greater than one to one horsepower cubic inch
displacement ratio

'57 Fuel Injected Corvette advertised as the first production car to have
1HP/CU IN...283

Bob in Portland

        "Cogito eggo sum"
(I think, therefore I'm a waffle)