<VV> 1961 Lakewood

[corvairduval at cox.net]

And I'll disagree with Bryan, and say the 500s I have seen had wheels
painted body color, as they came with small hub caps as standard, not wheel
covers. Same with Biscaynes and Bel Airs! I guess this shows the age
difference with Bryan and myself. I owned and worked on many early 60s
Chevys in my early days. Not many Impalas though. Interesting is that Buick
had a red wheel option in the 50s, not dependant on body color. Back to
Corvairs,

My 61 500 4 door had body color wheels.

Who has the option list? Slow Google search turns up this interesting site
for 61s:

http://www.gmheritagecenter.com/docs/gm-heritage-archive/vehicle-information
-kits/Corvair/1961-Chevrolet-Corvair.pdf

This lists wheels and body as the same color for ALL 1961 Corvairs! Even
Monzas.

Also to note is the ignition timing curves in the engine section. Someone
was asking about these a while back....

Frank DuVal

Original email:
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From: Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 09:58:10 -0400
To: air_cooled63 at yahoo.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> 1961 Lakewood


Neat car!  I'm pretty sure early 500s got black wheels.

--Bryan

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