<VV> Corvair mention in Oct. '07 Automobile magazine

[Wrsssatty at aol.com]

Wasn't it just a week ago that I said; "Is it just me or is it nearly 
impossible these days to pick up an auto enthusiast magazine without finding some 
reference to the Corvair?"?  (It was.)  Today it was the October issue of 
Automobile magazine that found it's way into my mail box and thence into my hands.  
There, on page 34, Jamie Kitman's "Noise, Vibration & Harshness" column is this 
month devoted to "embarrassing" cars that "have just plain sucked".  But hold 
on, this isn't going where you might think.  Setting the record straight 
Jamie says; "I hear many of you crying for the head (cracked and ready for 
welding) of GM's infamous Corvair, but I call this unfair.  The rear-engine, 
air-cooled Chevy may not have been perfect, but history musunderstands it if it sees 
this car as GM's greatest embarrassment."  He goes on to say of the Corvair 
that it was "[a]lways a handsome vehicle" and that it "was technically advanced 
in ways that GM products had not been for years."  The article is adorned with 
one comment that is reprinted in large font above a picture of an early 
Corvair.  It reads, in part, "The Corvair represented a line of outside-the-box 
thinking...."  We already knew that but it's good to see it repeated for the 
unwashed masses.
 
~Bill Stanley



************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at 
http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour