<VV> El Camino Corvair (such a thing ?)

[J R Read_HML]

Here is the Spyder version.

http://www.yourbuyersinn.com/CorvairPixHyperlinks.htm

SFAIK, not build at any GM factory - ever.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Weary" <michael_j_weary at hotmail.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:01 PM
Subject: <VV> El Camino Corvair (such a thing ?)


> Years ago when I was fresh into Corvairs I had a book showing 23 of these 
> (exact name unknown) was built by Chevrolet. They were early model station 
> wagon 2-door bodies. Now what really racks my brain is there was one of 
> these stored in the back of a storage yard of a plumbing supplier just off 
> of Old Dixie Highway in Jupiter, FL. I begged my father to trade our 65 
> Corvair 500 for it, and the owner agreed but by the time my father got 
> around to it, the El Corvairo was gone. Now many Corvair enthusiast have 
> either said I was imagining it, or it was a one-of custom someone built... 
> but it was too flawless to be a fab job, and if it was a one-of it 
> wouldn't have been abandoned in a plumbing companies storage yard. And yes 
> it was logo'd and formerly used in the plumbing business (Dixie Plumbing I 
> believe). So now that you all think I am sniffing brake fluid tell me of 
> these rare car and body style does exist... and who owns this one now. The 
> shop foreman and yard dog said a Corva
> ir fan bought it. That was somewhere around 1977
>