<VV> Another slam on Corvair.

[Jim Burkhard]

Wow... That's a "slam"?  You guys are too sensitive.  The 
innovative (for the time) unibody chassis is still being 
produced today and has become the norm in the light duty 
passenger car (non-truck) market.  The Corvair was plenty 
innovative, but is no longer being produced, nor have a slew 
of copycat rear-engined aircooled derivatives and successors 
taken its place.  It's a statement of facts, not a slam.

Yes, *individual* Corvairs still exist a plenty and the 
parts market is pretty decent, but that's not what they 
weretalking about.

Jim Burkhard

mark bashara wrote:
> While watching the Barrett Jackson auction a couple of nights ago, I was 
> very disapointed in a comment one of the TV announcers made. The guy was 
> talking about the advent of unibody's and mentioned the Chrysler cars 
> and so on. In doing so he also mentioned the Corvair, followed by the 
> unibody lasted, the Corvair didn't. I will never understand why people 
> always seen determined to give the Corvair bad press and never the 
> credit I believe it deserves. It appears that when you own a Corvair you 
> must always be prepared to defend all the false and misrepresented facts 
> about what I believe is a great car. I'm willing to bet the Corvair will 
> be around long after all the skeptics.