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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 13, 2022 1:06 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Rovernet] Engine ancestry</font>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 3:01 PM, Glen R. Wilson via Rovernet wrote:<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">Update: Corvair was a Z-body, not a Y-body GM platform.<br>
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"The three cars were jointly developed β still very unusual for GM in that era, when each division generally handled its own engineering and manufacturing β and shared a stretched version of the new unitized Y-body shell used by the Corvair. When the new cars
debuted in late 1960 for the 1961 model year, they were swiftly nicknamed βSenior Compacts.β<br>
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Picking nits. Engine info is fine.<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 2:52 PM, Glen R. Wilson via Rovernet wrote:<br>
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<p>"Although it shared a variation of the Corvair body shell, the Special looked nothing like its Chevrolet cousin and was somewhat larger, stretching 8.4 inches (213 mm) longer overall on a 4-inch (101-mm) longer wheelbase."</p>
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<p>It seems a "stretch" to say that the Buick Special and the Covair shared a unibody platform when one was rear-engined and the other was front-engined.<br>
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I own a 1964 Corvair Monza sedan, and it has to be lower than a Ford GT40. It's also physically smaller than a 1998 Volvo V70 (or any Volvo 850). Not too surprising that while GM marketed the Corvair as a compact family car, people were buying them because
they were sporty. That quickly led to the introduction of the Chevy II, a more conventional car. The Corvair remained in production for 10 years.<br>
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There's a '65 Corvair in my town with an Olds 215 mounted in a mid-engine configuration (no back seat, good weight distribution). The Olds version was the one Brabham and Repco used in F1 and is preferred for performance because of the way the cylinder heads
bolt to the block in a more robust manner.<br>
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Overall, a very good article. I'm just a bit taken aback by the notion that the Corvair was related to these bigger cars despite the fact that they were contemporaries under the GM umbrella.
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