<VV> Volume WAS difference between a sedan and a coupe

Kenneth E Pepke kenpepke at juno.com
Sun May 10 17:01:44 EDT 2009


Ok, I am out of work so I do not have access to the SAE library
to look this up.  Still, I am quite sure it is the volume behind the 
front seats to which the SAE specification refers.   

I do not have a Corvair to measure and I have no written
information but, A little arithmetic tells me a 3x3x3 foot cube is 
27 cubic feet.  That is the length in any direction, of a common 
yard stick.  Less than 1 foot added to any one of those 
dimensions make 33 cubic feet.  Now imagine how tight it 
would be with two people sitting within those dimensions.  
Corvair 2 door cars are tight but not that tight.  It might be kind
of close but, they are all sedans; EM with pillars and LM without 
and that also includes convertibles EM and LM.

The number of doors has nothing to do with it.  Still, there are
no 4 door coupes.  Sedans could be either 2 or 4, or more,
doors.
Ken P


On Sat, 9 May 2009 11:08:52 -0700 (PDT) "P.H. Raker" <n556p at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Steve,
>      You wrote, in part:
> >> Measurements of a coupe and a sedan are as follows:
> >> .         Coupe equals less than 33 cubic feet (.934 cubic m).
> >> .         Sedan is equal to or greater than 33 cubic feet.
> >
> > Which begs the question: How many cubic feet are in a Corvair two  
> 
> > door and four door?
> >
> > Stephen U
> 
> I asked the same question about a week ago and received no 
> satisfactory answer, just a bunch of wisecracks, but no wisdom.  It 
> would appear that nobody really knows what the interior volume of a 
> Corvair is.  If anyone does know, he's unwilling to share it with 
> the rest of us.
>  
> Phil Raker
> '65 Corsa Cpe - 140/4
> '63 Greenbrier - 110/4
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