<VV> April 2011 Collectible Automobile magazine

[Mel Francis]

I participated in the restoration of this car and the original tailights 
were missing. Undoubtedly lost, while it rested in the Warhoops junkyard in 
Detroit for
30 years, from 1959 until Joe Bortz was finally able to buy it in 1989. 
While researching for possible taillights to use, I noticed that the 
originals were
very similar to 1960 Corvair taillights, so we ordered two sets of NOS 
backup light conversion kits from Clark's and changed the two outer lenses 
to
red ones. So now this famous car has actual Corvair content, too!

This concept car is noteworthy because it is GM's first use of a perimeter 
frame, which lowered the roofline to 52 inches, 7 inches lower than a '55 
Chevrolet.
This car was the precursor of the production 1964 Chevelle, Cutlass, Le 
Mans, and Skylark mid-size cars, 9 years after it's first Motorama showing.

Mel Francis


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>
> The April 2011 Collectible Automobile magazine features on the cover the 
> restored 1955 GM Motorama show car, the Chevrolet Biscayne.  The article 
> acknowledge's the obvious influence of the Motorama Biscayne's rear-end 
> styling on the first generation Corvair.
>
> ~Bill Stanley
>
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