[FC] Re: Corvan versus GreenbriEr and more

[LonzoVair at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/24/2006 9:50:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
EconoUSAParts at aol.com writes:

<SNIP> .... Perhaps GM figured out their obvious production error  with that 
8 
door Corvair van option and corrected it ...  <SNIP>


 
Tim, Tim, Tim......
So, what you're saying is ALL van makers now have returned to the  production 
error as far as the 8 door models are concerned? Chevy now makes a  full size 
van with twin doors on both sides, and they are mirror images as the  
GreenbriEr was... and all mini-vans have doors that slide to the rear... with  door 
handles to the front... production error? Just what HAVE you been  smoking?
:-)
Just because someone does something different DOESN'T mean it's wrong...  VWs 
also had a 3 door crew cab truck... before all the others... does it mean  
Jeep was wrong in making an FC170 with 4 doors?
 
Silly, silly, silly.... I know I've seen an early VW bus with left side  
extra doors (before they went to a slider, so it's pre-68 or so)... and I think  
they were mirror doors too...
 
And then there's that whole engine placement thing.... just because it's in  
the back and doesn't have a radiator, how can that be wrong? No more wrong 
than  the Econolines with the engine between the seats... they don't put them 
there  now... they've moved them forward a few feet so you don't have ANY leg 
room...  although Toyota had a run of those vans with the engine between the 
seats for  many years... a true pain in the butt to work on... so those were all 
obvious  production errors???
;-)
Tim, for what it's worth, your perceived production error is a stroke of  
genius to me... I think the left side doors on a Greenbrier are way cool!
 
As for window options, there was a Corvan in Dry Ridge in a junk yard that  
had the rear side long windows, but no other windows past the front doors  
(including the back doors... solid)... it was at the "school bus graveyard"  there 
on 25 just before you hit the old part of town... way back by the RR  
tracks... the guy had 3 vans, but only one had the strange window set up... I  don't 
know if they're still there or not... someone told me the guy passed away  a 
few years back... I can't remember his name... Skaggs? Scrogggins? I don't  
know...
 
Any takers on your van yet? Just wondering...
 
Take care,
Lonzo
 
 
Lon Anderson  in White Mills, KY
CORSA, Corvanatics, Derby City Corvair, Central Ky  Corvair
Quart Low Quarterly Editor
1961 Greenbrier 110/pg
1963  Greenbrier 110/4spd
1964 700 sedan 95/pg
1969 Monza  110/pg