<VV> A breath of fresh air..

[n5hsr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche

.In 1964 after some success in motor racing, namely with the 550 Spyder, the company launched the Porsche 911. . . .

They  may not have turbocharged it until 74.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Secular 
  To: n5hsr 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:47
  Subject: Re: <VV> A breath of fresh air..



    hmmm...Charles are you sure about 911?

    the first 911 turbo-charged was produced in 1974 (12 years after the first spyder option)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_911#911_Turbo_.28Type_930.29_.281975.E2.80.931989.29

    and up until 1964, there was no such thing as 911 :)

    http://tinyurl.com/911-history

    Regards,


    Tony I.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "n5hsr" <n5hsr at sprynet.com>
  To: "Secular" <rusecular at yahoo.com>
  Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:17 AM
  Subject: Re: <VV> A breath of fresh air..


  > Yep.  Especially since the turbocharged Monza was competion with the 911 
  > that came out just before Corvair 190xxxW106000 rolled off the line.  (I've 
  > forgotten the code for the body style over the years.)
  > 
  > Charles Fregeau
  > ex 62 700 Coupe.
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: "Secular" <rusecular at yahoo.com>
  > To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
  > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 06:51
  > Subject: <VV> A breath of fresh air..
  > 
  > 
  > 
  >  If Lee Iacocca hadn't invented the pony car... if Ed Cole's R&D guys had
  >  just spent a little more time (make that money) ironing out the rear
  >  suspension... if the grapevine hadn't done such a complete job of
  >  overblowing the things the R&D guys overlooked or underfunded...
  > 
  >  if a certain accident victim had been driving a Falcon instead of a 
  > Corvair
  >  when he was killed in California in 1961... if this same unfortunate 
  > teenage
  >  driver hadn't had a lawyer as a stepfather... if this gentleman's law 
  > partner
  >  hadn't set his sights on a career in auto accident damages litigation, 
  > with
  >  Corvair mishaps being his main focus... if Connecticut Senator Abraham
  >  Ribicoff hadn't decided to put a feather in his congressional cap at the
  >  expense of supposedly unsafe American cars like the alleged
  >  consumer-killing Chevy.
  > 
  >  And if Ralph Nader had only grown up wanting to he a fireman. If, if, 
  > if...
  > 
  >  Although initial deficiencies were soon fixed beneath Chevrolet's 
  > innovative
  >  compact and the cars name eventually cleared in court, the Corvair never
  >  quite recovered from its early troubles. Despite claims to the contrary,
  >  Chevy's rear-engine wonder was reasonably safe at most speeds,
  >  yet the public had made up its mind, as had GM officials, who as
  >  early as April 1965 already were spreading the word to cease
  >  any future development work on Cole's uncon­ventional compact -
  >  this about six months before pioneering consumerist Nader's first
  >  big whistle-blowing work, Unsafe at Any Speed, was published.
  > 
  >  As it was, designers by then were busy developing GM's answer to Ford's
  >  wildly popular Mustang, and it was a foregone conclusion that the Camaro
  >  to come would more or less take the Corvair's place in Chevy's product
  >  pecking order. So it Was that the last Corvair rolled oil the line in May 
  > 1969.
  >  Plain and simple, this little breath of fresh air deserved a better 
  > fate...
  > 
  >  Source:
  > 
  >  American Horsepower - 100 years of Great Car Engines
  >  By Mike Mueller
  >  Chapter 13 - Page 94
  >  First published in 2006
  > 
  >  ----
  > 
  >  Tony Irani
  > 
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