<VV> 100 Years of Chevy

[Charlie G]

Too bad the screenwriter hadn't read:

http://calconnect.com/cars/car_wars/car_wars.htm

Even have a suggested tag line:

"Because they could have a V-8" with apology to Campbell's Soup


"The Corvair’s turbo charged flat-six engine, while still quick, couldn’t compete with a high performance V8. Additionally, Ford could easily drop bigger V8s into the Mustang. As Ed Cole noted, Chevrolet would have to perform a major and costly redesign of the Corvair engine to keep up with the market performance demands. (2,7) While technically possible, this re-design approach would have required the Corvair to pursue Porsche-like engineering avenues that would have increased the production costs and required repositioning of the Corvair into a different and smaller market. 

V8 power was cheap and easy. V8 power won the sporty car war."

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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:53:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Berg <thesuperscribe at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> 100 Years of Chevy
To: Brent Fullard <brent.fullard at rogers.com>,
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...
It made much of Ralph Nader's book and congressional testimony 
in '66,?of which one Corvair fan said, 
"That was the fatal shot to the Corvair. We never recovered."?
Never mind that Corvair sales began falling off in '63. 
?
Overall, though, the show was interesting and entertaining. 
?
--Tom in Ohio