<VV> Corvair smog issues

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:33 AM 8/19/2010, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 8/18/2010 8:15:06 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>tony.underwood at cox.net writes:
>
>But  since the initial decision to cease production first came down
>the pike in  1966, long before the smog factor had become a genuine
>issue, it seems  unlikely that any emissions issues were to have had
>any sort of serious  effect on GM's decisions to kill the
>car.    Let's also not  forget that the 'Vair was retrofitted with
>smog gear only AFTER the  initial decision to cease production was
>made... and production still  continued for almost 3 more years.
>
>Tony - That isn't true.


Yes it was... ;)


>In mid-1965 all California Corvairs


...in California ONLY, since they had their own way of doing things.

Everybody else in the USA who bought a 'Vair before '68 got one 
without any smog plumbing all over it.

And YES it's a genuine pain in the backside to mess with a smogged 
140 in a '69 Monza.   I know.



tony..