<VV> FYI: FS: 1962 Phone Company Greenbrier

[Robert Marlow]

At 04:42 PM 4/14/2009, Henri van Wandelen wrote:

>Ebay Item #130299601894


Actually, it is not a Greenbrier.  It is a Corvan.  A Corvan with the 
Greenbrier windows, except that none of the windows aft of the front 
seat roll down.  Take a look at the photo of the interior, you can 
see the blank panels where the window regulators would otherwise be 
in a Greenbrier.

I have seen one of these vans before -- once.  I had an opportunity 
to examine it closely.   The windows are regular Greenbrier roll-down 
windows except that they are bolted in place, with no window regulators.

I had a set of the side cargo doors off one of these vans for 
years.  I sold them to Alan Wesson at Hershey a few years back, and 
he installed them on the left side of his 8-door Corvan.  He then 
shipped the Corvan to England and then grew tired of it and sold 
it.  It now languishes in the dry, warm English countryside <grin!>

Many if not most of the phone company van were ordered with the 
Greenbrier-like windows on the passenger side and the solid panel on 
the driver's side.  But this one is, as I noted, only the second 
fully-windowed Corvan I have seen.

Note that the emblems read Corvair 95, not Greenbrier.

It is definitely a rare one, but I don't think that its scarcity 
warrants a value any higher than that for any "normal" Corvair truck 
in this condition.

--Bob