<VV> Late Corvair bolt pattern. - And others

[Sethracer at aol.com]

Last Summer, Chevy had a big display at the Laguna Seca race, with Team  
Corvette and others there. The had a banquet hosted by the Corvette Museum  
folks. The guest speaker was Tadge Juechter, the Corvette engineering chief 
for  GM. After giving the pep-talk about the new C7, with slides, he was brave 
 enough to take questions from the audience - of about 150 Corvette fans. 
His one  caveat was - He could not talk about future Production plans. GM 
would get  really mad if he did. But he answered all kinds of questions. After 
the dinner,  on his way out, I cornered him, and his lovely wife, and got a 
snapshot with my  "good buddy" (his wife took the photo). I asked him if the 
new C7 Corvette still  used the same 5-bolt wheel pattern that my C6 uses ( 
I have at least 5 sets  of tires, race and otherwise, for my 2005, and I 
was thinking - - ) He said  yes it does, and that the C7 Corvette was now the 
only GM car, worldwide,  that uses that bolt pattern. That is the same 
pattern that all Corvettes  have used since 1953. - And the same bolt pattern 
that the 1965-69 Corvair and  all FC Corvairs.  So - Matt, Bryan and Chuck were 
correct, the Corvette. 
 

 
 
That is me on the left, Tadge on the right!  - Seth
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/9/2014 4:48:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
patiomatt at aol.com writes:

only one  new car in the world now being built 
with that exact 5-bolt, 4 3/4",  pattern  Seth

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Matt  Nall

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