<VV> Corvette Arises (No Corvair)

[mark at noakes.com]

Funny thing about those "options"...the vette was only available with a 
powerglide...the manual 3-speed didn't come out for it till 55 same as 
the first year for the 265 V8...53s and 54s were all 236 6-cylinders 
with 3 of our Carter YH carbs...looked cool though.  

My dad's first jobs out of college were working GM's Parade of 
Progress and then the GM Motorama so he saw those cars first hand as 
show cars...he wasn't especially impressed...but I would have loved to 
have had one...then or now.

Mark Noakes

----Original Message----
From: hmlinc at sbcglobal.net
Date: Jun 15, 2007 21:54 
To: "Smitty Smith"<vairologist at verizon.net>, <virtualvairs at corvair.
org>
Subj: &lt;VV&gt; Corvette Arises (No Corvair)

According to this, a 54 Vette "loaded" was $3253.  Take out the PG (in 
'54 I 
think most would have) and it was a mere $3,075.  Didn't take ALL that 
much 
money to do.

http://www.idavette.net/facts/54.htm

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Smitty Smith" <vairologist at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: <VV> Corvette Arises From the Dead (No Corvair)


> Smitty Says:Maybe 10 years ago a supermarket owner in Bath Maine 
broke 
> down a wall inside his store where he had encapsuled a 54 Corvette.  
Other 
> than being pretty dusty and having very yellow whitewalls it came 
out in 
> fine shape.  We should all have that kind of money and foresight.
>

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