<VV> X cars and A cars

[Ken Clark]

See what happens when the years go by, I don't remember what the Citation looked like anymore, but it was the one in 1979, however I do remember the Celebrity as my folks had on and the rear wheels did not follow the front ones, sort of dog tracked for some reason, maybe it had been wrecked.  I never liked them.   Ken
 

> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:22:58 -0400
> From: cityhawk at pobox.com
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> X cars and A cars
> 
> The Celebrity was Chevy's "A" body entry, which was essentially the same 
> car as the Buick Century, the Pontiac 6000 and the Olds Cutlass Ciera. I 
> believe they came out in 1982. The X cars were introduced in the 1980 
> model year and were the Chevy Citation, the Buick Skylark, the Olds 
> Omega and the Pontiac Phoenix.
> 
> The X cars had a bad rap for quality, and had a number of recalls; the 
> A-body cars were not so plagued. I had two X cars, a 1980 and a 1981 
> Buick Skylark, both with the 2.8L V6. I didn't have any real problems 
> with either.
> 
> On 6/18/2012 1:46 PM, Bryan Blackwell wrote:
> > The X body Chevy was the Citation. Yes, the Celebrity was also a Chevy, but it followed the Citation by several years.
> >
> > A little Corvair content - when the Citation was introduced, Car and Driver did a comparison article between it and the Corvair since they were both quite revolutionary. I'm sure James has a copy of the magazine in his archives.
> >
> > --Bryan
> >
> > On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Ken Clark wrote:
> >
> >> also remember seeing a guy hanging on a door to try to get it to close and there were a number of cars lined for body work. Wasn't the Celebrity a Chevy? I know, it's been a long time ago. Ken
> >>
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