<VV> Bite the ignorant...

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

Well, I remember the LMs being referred to at the Chevy parts counter 
as the R body. Perhaps the earlies were something else.


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I maybe wrong but:

The Corvair was part of GM's innovative Y-body
  ("Z"-Body from 1965-on) line of cars :)


 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Corvair


 


Regards,


 


 


Tony I.





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  jvhroberts at aol.com


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  ignorant...




I thought the Corvair was an R body? At least that's what the
  parts
manuals say.

I think the real reason the Corvair was killed
  was cost. For all that
it is, it is also more expensive to build than what
  GM is used to
building, and to compete with the Mustnag, it would've cost
  even more.


-----Original Message-----
From: Secular <rusecular at yahoo.com>
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent:
  Sun, 22 Feb 2009 9:51 pm
Subject: <VV> Bite the
  ignorant...



0D







  
  General Motors has a pattern of killing its products just after all
the
  bugs
   have finally been sorted out, consuming vast resources
  and trashing
  the automaker's reputation. That cycle may be coming
  around again,
  only this time at a level that dooms the entire
  organization, rather
  than just spelling the end for a single
  product.

   Looking back, this type of thing has been going
  on for decades. Time
was,
   GM was an innovator, trying new
  things with varied success. Let's
start
   with the Corvair.
  While the Corvair was an A-body, like the Chevy II
that
  
  came shortly after, it was like nothing else GM had ever done. Rear

engined
  with an air-cooled flat six, the Corvair was the Porsche
  911 before
  there was a 911.

   Vast amounts of
  engineering muscle went into all aspects of the

revolutionary
   car, and when it initially appeared on the
  scene, it made a case for
itself as

   an economy car
  totally unlike anything else on the market. What did
GM
  get for
  its troubles? A tarring and feathering at the hands of safety
 
  advocates; it was later proven that the Corvair was no more
  dangerous
  than its contemporaries, though there were some peculiar
20 quirks like
  staggered tire pressures that could bite the
  ignorant...

  Source:

  http://tinyurl.com/bite-the-ignorant


 
  Tony I.