<VV> RE: crate bodies... The last Corvair, an Olympic Gold Monza Coupe (# 6000),

[werp knarly]

http://www.corvair.org/chapters/69corvair/#whats_different

this article says #5999 had problems and had to be rolled off the line, but
was fixed...


Thanks!

Joe, Lisa, Teegan, and Mina
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cepak, Tom A" <tom.a.cepak@lmco.com>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: <VV> RE: crate bodies


> Bill,
>
> Are you guys talking about the last '69 Corvair to come off the assembly
> line?  The one that's about 95% complete except the assembly line didn't
> have enough parts to finish it?  If so, I saw that one a few years ago
> at the Pate's Museum of Transportation, North of Cresson Texas on
> Highway 377, South of Fort Worth.  I don't know if it is still there or
> not though.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Message: 13
> From: Wrsssatty@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:19:12 EDT
> To: virtualvairs@skiblack.com
> Subject: <VV> crate bodies
>
> <It is a red Monza coupe w/black interior, and had the body number of
> "XXXXXX". It was an example of just exactly what Fisher Body supplied
> Chevrolet. Last time I heard a CORSA member in Texas owned it, but
> hasn't done any thing with it (his original plans were to complete the
> car build.)
>
> -Mark>
>
> Yes, Mark, that's what I've heard, too.  As I heard it, it belonged to
> an
> auto museum.  I know there was a Texas connection--perhaps the museum
> was in TX,
> too.  Anyway, it was then sold to a private individual in TX and, as I
> understand it, his original intention was to finish building it.  Some
> folks tried to
> talk him out of it, urging that he keep it as it left GM for historic
> purposes.  I've gotta admit, "building" it seems to me tantamount to
> finishing
> Schubert's Unfinished Symphony but I tend to be a purist.  I don't know
> what then
> became of it.
>
> Bill Stanley
>
>
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