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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 3:01 PM, Glen R. Wilson via
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<div class="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 — still very unusual for GM
in that era, when each division generally handled its own
engineering and manufacturing — 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 “Senior Compacts.”<br>
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Picking nits. Engine info is fine.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 2:52 PM, Glen R. Wilson
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 12:43 PM, Lance La
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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. <br>
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