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Recreational Mechanic
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Northern Colorado, USA
Posts: 3,326
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Thanks guys, yes the Corvair really was the "American Porsche". Not that a Corvair compares in engineering detail to any Porsche but they had an air cooled flat 6 several years before Porsche and a turbocharger over a decade before Porsche.
Really neat history...probably, to this day, the most unique thing that GM has ever built...probably the last time GM let the automotive engineers run free. The Corvair project taught GM to keep the accountants in charge LOL.
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