<VV> Another slam on Corvair.
Jim Burkhard
burkhard at rochester.rr.com
Thu Jan 26 18:15:20 EST 2006
Huh? Where did I make the claim that Corvair was first?
Jim Burkhard
Ron wrote:
> On the unibody, Corvair followed Nash and can't claim any first there.
> RonH
and I wrote before that:
>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
>were talking about.
>
>Jim Burkhard
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