<VV> body styles

[J R Read_HML]

Minor correction...
 The '35 had a chrome grill.  The '36 had a black grill.
Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "Kenneth E Pepke" <kenpepke at juno.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> body styles


> Yep... that is correct.
>
> In the early - mid '60s, I was into 30 year old F... cars.  One was a 2 
> door
> sedan - like this one:
>
> http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/your_garage/cars/10206.shtml
>
> ,but the grill and wheels were body color (black).  Otherwise - the same
> car.
>
> I did not know it was called a "slantback" at the time, but (thinking 
> back)
> that was probably a rare version.  Most had a "humpback?" - which was - 
> the
> trunk was a hump on the rear which opened from outside of the car.  That 
> '35
> is long gone - it became a wedding ring in 1965.
>
> Anyway - I called it a 2 door sedan and still do.  The "trunk" was like on 
> a
> Rampside (Corvair content).  The rear seat folded forward to get there.
> Also, there was LOTS of leg room in front of the rear seat.  I guess they
> had not figured out how to hinge a front seat on those days.  You had to
> lift the entire front passenger seat - hinged at the front at the floor - 
> in
> order to get to the rear seat.
>
> Later, JR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kenneth E Pepke" <kenpepke at juno.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> body styles
>
>
>> OK, a Club Coupe falls short of the volume behind the front seat
>> required to be a sedan yet it is fitted with an undersized rear seat
>> or 'jump seat.'
>> Ken P
>>
>> On Mon, 4 May 2009 22:38:54 -0700 "Dennis Pleau" <dpleau at wavecable.com>
>> writes:
>>> I got a great idea, let's call our cars what the manufacture called
>>> them.
>>> I've have a 61 Lakewood Station Wagon, I've owned many 63 Club
>>> Coupes and
>>> Sedans. I have a 65 coupe that is also a hard top.  I sold my 66
>>> Sports
>>> Sedan before I moved from CO and it was also a hard top.  Chevy
>>> called my 63
>>> Greenbrier a station wagon.  I like minivan better, but I'm OK with
>>> either
>>> or both.
>>>
>>> dp
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
>>> [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of
>>> airvair at earthlink.net
>>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:13 PM
>>> To: Shaun McGarvey; virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>> Subject: Re: <VV> body styles
>>>
>>> And (for an example) let's allow all surgeons to call their own
>>> tools
>>> whatever they individually want. I can just see your surgeon now,
>>> saying to
>>> his scrub nurse (as he's cutting into you): "Quick, hand me a number
>>> 372
>>> widget? What? You don't know what a 372 widget is? You idiot! Your
>>> stupidity just killed the patient."
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>> P.S. Shaun, hope this makes you aware of WHY it's necessary to use
>>> standard
>>> terminology. The above is an example of a "Shaunism" (everyone on a
>>> different page and unable to understand one another.)
>>>
>>>
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