<VV> What in the World.....?

[Bill Elliott]

Manual chokes were still pretty much the standard "in the World" at that 
time... if not necessarily in the US. High end cars like Rolls and Bentley 
had automatic chokes (as well as GM automatic transmissions... common here 
for some time but rare elsewhere), but for less than a decade.

With all the dramatic design changes, they probably just didn't have enough 
time to solve that particular problem in time for 1961 production... but 
obviously considered it important enough to get solved for the following 
year.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <BobHelt at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:40
Subject: <VV> What in the World.....?


>
> What in the World could Chevrolet have been thinking when they went from 
> an
> automatic choke to manual choke control on the Corvair in 1961?
>
> Manual chokes hadn't been used for two decades. Automatic chokes were
> standard items in the 1960s.
>
> Regards,
> Bob Helt
>