<VV> Re Why 6000?

[Mark Corbin]

Ken,

Could it be that you are confusing the demise of the Corvair in '69 with
the introduction of the (Citation) X-car in '79 (as an early '80 model)?

As to what happened to #6000, it's simple. Until a vehicle is released for
sale by GM, it legally doesn't exist. GM simply made #6000 "disappear" when
the scrapped the car before it was released for sale. It's their property,
and they can do with it what they want. Hence, no paper trail, and no
evidence that it ever existed (other than the photos of it, which were a
"fluke" occurance and not something that would have occured normally.) I
doubt that anyone will ever find any paper trail, especially since Dave
Newell has long since scoured GM's files of everything pertaining to
Corvairs, with nothing to show on #6000.

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> Subject: Re: <VV> Re Why 6000?
>
> But Fisher Body was well into producing a 1970 Corvair ... 
>
> As I recall GM was having troubles with a new plant opening and ended up 
> taking over the Corvair production lines with the new X car and relegated
the 
> assembly of the final Corvairs to a former plant cafeteria.
>
> As for what happened to #6000; for legal reasons the disposition of each
and
> every vehicle built it well tracked and recorded under the watchful eye
of 'Big
> Brother.'  As much as some would have it believed that the car was
scrapped 
> the fact is there are no records of it's disposition ... It just sort of
'evaporated' 
> leaving no paper trail ... a mystery which may or may not ever be solved. 
> Ken Pepke
>
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> >Legal Reason:  A bunch of new safety regs kicked in in 1970 
> >(steering/ignition interlock, new door regs, new glass regs, etc) There 
> >was no cost / benefit for going into the 1970 model year.  (not to 
> >mention no sales)
>
>
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