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What Chevy Might Have Built

Posted April 28, 2010 12:01 AM by dstrohl

When did Corvair development really stop? Before Richard Langworth's article on the topic in 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation Chevrolet Corvair was released.

But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along with a healthy dose of speculation), Langworth makes the case for the continued development of the Corvair with an eye on revamping it in the early 1970s with some substantial changes.

As Langworth writes, "The first '197X Corvair' emerged at Styling Staff in May 1965, just as the Mustang was enjoying its record-breaking sales, but well before GM realized that the Corvair couldn't compete with it."

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04/29/2010 12:23 AM

I'm not sure about the time that the corvair stopped being developed. I wish they had done something before I bought mine, a new golden colored 1965. At the turn of the odometer on 10,000 miles my front end was falling off and I had to get new tires and new shocks. At the end of the odometer reading of 20,000 miles, the same thing happened. After fighting with Chevy over the repairs at 10 and 20, I ran it til 30,000 miles and when Chevy finally said there must be something in the design, I traded it for a VW and left notes all throughout the car hoping the next sucker would find one of them. That was before carfax.

I haven't ever considered buying a Chevy since.

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04/29/2010 9:48 AM

Corvairs were built from 1960 to 1969.

It's always been my opinion that the Camero was the replacement car for the Corvair and made to better compete with the Mustang.

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