<VV> Fwd: FYI from VV

[wrsssatty at aol.com]

I am forwarding, with his permission, Dave Newell's additional info about GM sales in Japan.  I hope his attachments make their way to all the VV'ers!


~Bill Stanley



-----Original Message-----
From: David Newell <chevrobilia at yahoo.com>
To: wrsssatty <wrsssatty at aol.com>
Cc: Carl.Kelsen <Carl.Kelsen at VICTRACK.com.au>
Sent: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 3:14 am
Subject: Re: FYI from VV


Hi,
Here are some Japanese car magazine ads from all three Chevrolet distributors. 
And a pic taken in what is probably a Taiyo showroom of a Holden with '61 Chevy 
showroom posters and Mt. Fuji behind it. You can't see it in the scan because 
the pic was too close to the spine, but there's a '61 Lakewood poster just in 
front of the car.

Plus the first page of an article from the Jan-Feb 1959 GM World about the 
500,000th Holden celebration which tells about the 10,000 Holden exports as of 
that date. They started exporting earlier than I thought.

I found this email address for Carl from 2005 but don't know if it's any good. 
If it is, it's great to be in touch with you, Carl!

I don't know if you can post these to VV but you're welcome to. VV'ers should 
enjoy the ads.

Dave

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On Wed, 8/20/14, wrsssatty at aol.com <wrsssatty at aol.com> wrote:

 Subject: FYI from VV
 To: Chevrobilia at yahoo.com
 Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 10:16 AM
 
 <From: Carl Kelsen Arlette Pat
 <arlettecarl at hotmail.com>To: Virtualvairs Virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
 Subject: <VV> Japanese Corvairs
 
 
 Hi everyone,
 I like many of you, hold Dave Newell in very high regard
 with respect to his 
 incredible knowledge with respect to Corvair history and I
 particularly enjoyed 
 his comments with respect to the few Corvairs that
 'apparently' were exported to 
 Japan during the 1960s.
 That said can, I add the following as Australian.
 
 "Holden sold in Japan by Taiyo Automobile Company
 Ltd"
 I stand to be corrected, but I don't believe
 Australia's GM-Holden ever export 
 vehicles officially to Japan. There may have been a few
 individual private 
 exports however. Certainly GM-Holden vehicles during the
 1960s were exported in 
 RHD and LHD form to a number of countries including the
 United States but I 
 don't think Japan was one of them. I may be wrong and am
 happy to be corrected.
 In 1960 GM-Holden Australia exported a small number of Left
 hand drive 1960 'FB' 
 Holden Special sedans to Hawaii. I expect they would have
 not been a commercial 
 success, and that none would have survived today after 50
 plus years of exposure 
 to salt air.  
 Metric prior to 1970?
 Japan as far as I am aware, like Australia in the 1960s had
 not yet changed to 
 the absolutely superior Metric measurement system. Australia
 changed to Metric 
 measurement which has since become the internationally
 accepted standard 
 measurement system in the early 1970s and I think Japan did
 about the same time. 
 Accordingly I would not expect to see a Metric speedo in any
 Japanese car built 
 before at least 1970.
 Regards to everyoneCarl KelsenMelbourne, Victoria,
 AustraliaRHD 1965 Monza 
 Convertible (with an export metric speedo)
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