<VV> Length of LM Corvairs

Rick Norris ricknorris at suddenlink.net
Sun Jan 4 19:03:50 EST 2009


Hey,
When a new mother is talking about her child they will say , He's 24 months 
old! Why not say the little snot is two years??
Go figure!

Rick

>> The overall length is the same (shop manuals).
>
> Talking of lengths, I have always wondered why American car lengths are
> always given in inches, rather than feet and inches, in the shop manuals
> (Vairs included), and also in books like the Standard Catalog of American
> Cars.
>
> What happened to feet? Y'all still use those, doncha? Ever since I have
> owned American cars I have got used to having to do feet and inches
> conversions in my head if I want to know how long my cars really are. And
> the only one I can ever do off the top of my head is 180 ins, which is 15
> feet (120 + 60, of course).
>
> But a lot of the full-size 50s cars I used to own were a few inches either
> side of 200 inches, and that always used to take me ages to work out in
> feet. Finally I got used to the fact that 192 ins is 16 feet, and so 16 
> feet
> 6 ins (a relatively popular length) is 198 ins, or 200 ins near as dammit.
>
> But why not just tell us in feet to begin with? Vair content is that I am
> pretty sure without checking exactly that Vairs were nice easy 15-footers,
> or 180 ins (or thereabouts). Haven't checked for about 10 years though - 
> am
> I right?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
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