<VV> Greenbrier Hotel--Corvair content

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

You got that right Homey!
--
Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- Wrsssatty at aol.com wrote: 
> As a native West Virginian I can tell you that West Virginians are  
> justifiably proud of the Greenbrier resort and understandably concerned with its  fate 
> given the current financial hardship.  The Charleston, West Virginia  papers 
> yesterday reported that Gov. Manchin had even approached Donald Trump  about 
> rescuing the Greenbrier.  
>  
> Corvair content, "back in the day" the Greenbrier was a favorite haunt of  GM 
> executives, etc.  It was at a meeting there that they unveiled one of  the 
> first of the Spyder convertibles before either convertibles or the  Spyder 
> option was available to the general public.  The car stayed  behind as the property 
> of the hotel manager and stayed at the resort for many  years to come.  Allen 
> Bristow, in the '90s, acquired that car, which  was still at the Greenbrier, 
> and had it painstakingly restored.  You may  have seen it at conventions.  I 
> know it was at the '99 Virginia Vair  Fair.  I recall seeing it for the first 
> time at that event's Museum open  house (that was when the Corvair Museum was 
> in Virginia).  If memory serves  me correctly, Allen had a display with the car 
> that featured some photos of the  car's history at the Greenbrier resort.  
> Allen also had the car in  Lexington in '04.  He put it in the People's 
> Choice/Car Display there as he  felt he hadn't had time to prep it properly for 
> Concours.  It's red/red  with distinct white striping over the trunk and hood.  
> Also, as the story  goes, our Corvair Greenbrier's name was chosen by Chevy 
> management as an homage  to the Greenbrier resort, hence the spelling of the name.
>  
> ~Bill Stanley
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