The official blog of the 2012 International Convention of the Corvair Society of America, which took place in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, July 25-28, 2012. Presented by the member clubs of the Northeast Corvair Council.
Scroll down to see the latest posts, and check the Blog Archive (at the lower portion of the right-hand column) to look up specific posts.
Scroll down to see the latest posts, and check the Blog Archive (at the lower portion of the right-hand column) to look up specific posts.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The Last Corvair
Revised April 3, 2012: We hope you enjoyed our April Fool's post about 1969 Corvair #6000, the last car built, which disappeared shortly after being photographed at the assembly plant on the day it was built. Despite some dogged investigation by Corvair historian Dave Newell and others, there has never turned up any evidence of the car's fate. There has been much conjecture through the years – the most commonly accepted one being that it was simply destroyed so as to not create a fuss over the "last Corvair" – but even that is only conjecture.
We posted a fanciful story about new information and documentation on the car, asserting its survival into the 1980s and announcing a display to be presented at the convention.
It was all hogwash, as you found out if you clicked through to the page that was purportedly going to show you some of the evidence.
But even without new evidence of #6000, there will be plenty to see and do at this summer's convention. No fooling!