<VV> RE: Balancers

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:04 hours 07/19/2006, kaczmarek at charter.net wrote:

> > Unless of course, the engineer's Uncle Marvin owned the company 
> that made the parts, or
> > someone needed to justify their job, etc. :-).
>  Grant
>If that was the case, then the PG Corvairs would have had a Park 
>Pin.  They don't, because they decided they could save 4.00 per 
>unit, from the discussion I heard once. Even if it was .25/unit, 
>x1,000,000?   GM looks for unit savings like that.
>
>One of the reasons the 60's looked cheap (crappy door panels, etc)


...hey...!


>was because so much was spent on the engineering that they had to 
>skimp in other places, I think I read that in Tony Fiore's book.



I'm gonna make sure my '60 4-door doesn't read this e-mail.



tony..