<VV> Monza vs Corsa

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:53 hours 12/15/2005, mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:
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>See http://tocmp.com/brochures/Chev/1965/Corvair/pages/65corvair15_jpg.htm
>for the 1965 chart (on right side of page)
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>Hope this helps.
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>Padgett
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>So I noticed a couple of things looking over the 1965 brochure.  One 
>is that it says the gas tank is 11.8 gallons, I thought all late 
>models had a 14 gallon tank.  It also says the tires are 6.50 x 13 
>tires, I thought all the late models had 7.00 x 13 tires (or tyres 
>for our other side of the pond friends).  Typos, changes 
>truth??  What's the real story?




My '60 4-door sedan still has what appears to be its original spare 
tire.   It's a 6:50x13.   Shows some sidewall issues, fine cracks etc 
but the tread is still solid with no cracks, holds air for a year 
without weeping down.   Two of the lates here still have their 
original spare tires.   They're both 7:00x13s.    Ironically, both 
these 35+ year old spare tires seem pretty solid, no serious rubber 
rot or other evident flaws to reflect their age.   One of them got 
put to use on a road trip to a show, drove over 100 miles on the 
ancient spare.   No problems.


By the way, never in my life was I ever able to get 14 gallons of 
fuel into a Vair (car) fuel tank regardless of how empty it was.    I 
did well to get much more than 11 gallons into them... less than 
that, in the case of my '60.


tony..