<VV> Re: VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 11, Issue 100

[Paul Rollins]

At 04:36 PM 12/18/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:09:25 -0500
>From: "Bill Elliott" <Corvair at fnader.com>
>Subject: Re: <VV> Another Corvair sighting?
>To: "NicolCS at aol.com" <NicolCS at aol.com>,        "virtualvairs at corvair.org"
>         <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>
>On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:01:58 EST, NicolCS at aol.com wrote:
>
> >Our Corvair friend Steve Laser usually goes to the Tokyo Motor Show for his
> >work. (He's an automotive journalist).  This year he sent me the show 
> catalog
> >which included highlights from every year (they started in the 50's).  I 
> just
> >about fell out of my chair when I got the the 1964 page.  Either Datsun 
> and GM
> >were copying the same European design OR the stylists went the same college
> >(as a practical matter, there are only two design schools)
>
> >Check this out:
>
>
>The early model Corvair is likely the most-copied car design in history. 
>I'm pretty confident that GM was
>first with this milestone design... all of the other copies didn't start 
>appearing until the early '60's. Never
>mind Japan... it's difficult to find a European car maker (even behind the 
>Iron Curtain) that didn't have
>their own "Corvairesque" design by 1964...
>
>Bill Elliott


"The early model Corvair is likely the most-copied car design in 
history."..... ???????

Have you heard of the "Mini"?

Paul