<VV> The Last Corvair Article (Corvair in Print)

[J R Read_HML]

I recall a '69 body on display (red I think) at one of the conventions.  I 
believe it was either Dallas or St. Louis.  There was no interior and no VIN 
and there may not have been an engine, but I'm not sure on that part.  I 
understood it to be a shell - essentially the way it would have arrived at 
GM from Fisher Body.  Surely, someone else on VV has more specific 
information than I.

I don't know who owned it.  Perhaps this is the one you refer to?  I believe 
that I heard it was sold some time after the convention display (around 
$10,000?), but don't know that to be a fact.  I did not see the Hemmings 
article.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Moorhouse" <corvair65 at verizon.net>
To: "VV" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: <VV> The Last Corvair Article (Corvair in Print)


> Excuse me if this has been mentioned before.  I didn't see it if it was.
>
> The last two issues of Hemmings Classic Car (December and January) have 
> had a short article on the last Corvair.  December's pertained to a 
> Corvair in the Art Astor collection, in Anaheim, CA, and was being 
> advertised as the last Corvair.  In January's article, David Newell, sets 
> the record straight. That was the first I had heard of a body being built 
> after 6000, but never got a VIN or running gear and is supposed to sit in 
> a museum in TX.  Has anyone seen this?
>
> December's issue also had an article on the 1967 Chevy Astro I, which was 
> Corvair based and was supposed to have a 240 HP OHC Corvair engine in it. 
> David Newell and Larry Claypool are mentioned in this article.
>
> Hemmings Classic Car has always been very favorable in their articles on 
> the Corvair.
>
> Russ Moorhouse
> '65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
> Group Corvair Member
> Corsa Member
> Kent Island, MD
>
>