[FC] Moter trend buyer's guide, 1961

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Bill and all,

How ironic . . . I was at a flea-market Sunday and found a small stack of early 60's Motor Trend magazines, about half of them had Corvair articles.  I bought six of them for about $1 each, including the one Bill mentioned.  The four wheel drive Corvair powered "thingie" was the original Trail Blazer built by Vic Howard. 

Terry Kalp
> 
> From: Wild8bill@aol.com
> Date: 2004/02/09 Mon AM 01:06:59 EST
> To: corvanatics@corvair.org
> Subject: [FC] Moter trend buyer's guide, 1961
> 
>    I was in an antique (junk) store today, and they had a lot of old copies 
> of Motor Trend. I looked through the 1961 buyers guide issue on the off hand 
> that there would be mention of either my Greenbrier or rampside. There was a 
> several page article on spyder car, and a concept 4x4 powered with a Corvair 
> engine (it looked modern enough to be a current concept 4x4), and a two page 
> article describing the rampside. The article praised the ramp as "the first true 
> innovation in pickups in the last twenty years". They gave it so-so marks on the 
> interior and the instrumentation, and praised its nearly one ton load 
> capacity. There was also a picture, so I can attest that the original paint scheme of 
> the bed is as follows: bed floor, top and side of wheel wells/battery cover, 
> inside of tailgate and ramp are dark grey; inside walls of bed and back of cab 
> are main body color.
>    I never asked the price of the magazine, now I'm tempted to have it. They 
> had a few copies of the same issue, and about a hundred other issues from the 
> sixties. If anyone's interested, I can see if there's an article about your 
> particular year/model truck. I can't imagine that they would ask more than $20 
> an issue, probably more like $5-10.
> 
> Bill
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