<VV> The "Once and Future Corvair"

[Charles Lee]

I believe that Dave Newell (BTW, Hi Dave !) may be a good source for 
'next-generation' Corvair designs, that I got from GM back then when Chevy 
was 'cleaning house' of any evidence that could be used against them about 
the Corvair.

If I remember correctly, they looked a lot like production versions of Astro 
I and Corvette designs, but of a more practical (?) nature but not nearly as 
sleek as the ?

Copies may also be in the museum ?

Charlie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Ness" <aircoolvair at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair and OBD, EFI, etc


Question that begs to be asked.... were there any body, style changes for 
1970? If so what were they?

Regards,
Frank

--- On Thu, 8/19/10, kenpepke at juno.com <kenpepke at juno.com> wrote:

> From: kenpepke at juno.com <kenpepke at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Corvair and OBD, EFI, etc
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 11:52 AM
>
> What was the 'official' GM / Chevrolet reason for the
> demise of the Corvair? Fisher Body Division was well
> on the way for tooling a 1970 model. I worked on that
> project. GM has a policy of business as usual until
> the official change takes place so even though engineering
> knew the end was coming it was not well known exactly
> when. A great deal of start up problems at the new
> Lordstown plant was at least partially responsible for the
> last of Corvair production to be done off line and that may
> have been an unadvertised major factor.
>
> Chevrolet Engineering was well aware that the government
> had full intent to exercise more and more control of their
> product and emissions was the talked about 'item of the day'
> in house. It was well known an air cooled engine would
> not meet the expected upcoming US standards. That
> would not be something GM would have wanted to advertise
> either. Seems to me the official reason was lack of
> market response and that was back in November of 65.
> We know they carried the car through the 69 model year
> because of Mr. Nader. To the outside world it died a
> quiet death.
> Ken P
>
>
>
> ***********************************
> Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
> wrote: [in part]
>
>
>
> At 07:51 AM 8/16/2010, Tom Berg wrote:
>
> >Even so, there's a limit to how much an old engine can
> be tuned for clean
> >burning. And remember, inability to get the air-cooled
> engine to
> >meet government
> >emissions limits is one reason GM gave for cancelling
> the Corvair.
>
>
>
> ...not heard that one.
>
> All I heard was competition from the other marques who were
> making
> quicker and faster ponycars, including Chevy itself with
> the Camaro
> which was an offshoot of the 'Vair in the first
> place. Let's not
> forget how GM was making less profit on each Corvair sold
> than
> anything else they made.
>
>
>
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