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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

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The Last Chevy Corvair?

Posted July 08, 2011 8:00 AM by dstrohl

As we found out a few years ago in the Lost and Found column in Hemmings Classic Car, things get a bit tricky when declaring one car or another to be the last Corvair. In fact, as Corvair historian Dave Newell put it, "The mystery of [the last Corvair's] fate is one of the greatest in GM's history." That said, this 1969 Chevrolet Corvair is claimed to be the last Corvair Monza convertible, and the owner says there's documentation to prove that claim.

From the description: "The last Corvair convertible built. Last four of VIN, 5,997 of 6,000 built. The last 3 cars off the assembly line were coupes. The VIN is the proof. This is a 1969 frost green Monza convertible with original matching interior. Equipped with 110 horsepower engine, Powerglide transmission, rare remote mirror, AM-FM radio, super rare telescopic steering column and factory mag-style hubcaps."

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