<VV> RE: THE MARVELOUS CORVAIR

[Rod Murray]

re:  mark's note below, it's easy to see the bodyline similarities
between camaro and the late vair.  But if this is true, how did jim
explain the significant redesign of going from an air-cooled rear-engine
vehicle to water-cooled front placement (along with whatever other
engineering differences)?  Wouldn't this be admitting defeat of the
original corvair engineering concept?  Or is it possible that the
original camaro body might have been Corvair Phase III and thus remained
rear-engine and air-cooled???  I'm not disputing anything here, it's
just interesting and i'm curious...thx   

Snip "At the convention Jim Musser...worked for GM at
the time the Corvair was built...he confirmed...that management
wanted to put the Corvair name on the '67 ponycar, but that Ralphie's
book
made that impossible. So in reality, what was named the Camaro was
REALLY
supposed to be the third generation Corvair." end snip

Rod
Vintage Corsa Publicity & Website Guy
66 Monza Convt 140/4