Chevy Corvair drophead avatar now Andr'e. Bet not many people on here would know one. I used to see them all the time when I was a young'n living near a couple of US air bases. They had a lovely engine note (big flat six engine).
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Chevy Corvair drophead avatar now Andr'e. Bet not many people on here would know one. I used to see them all the time when I was a young'n living near a couple of US air bases. They had a lovely engine note (big flat six engine).
Your good Geoff 1960 model.. :eyebrows: bit like the NSU Prinz syling
It didn't have the lovely engine of this, though...Quote:
Originally Posted by Rare Bird
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I'm quite happy with my Busso V6 :D
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Aye beutiful car the 'R080' but that Wankel engine was something else..Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Yes they were like the NSU. The Hilman Imp was rather similar in style and I believe there was a sixties Panhard with the same fluted sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rare Bird
Did you ever see a Corvair Monza. Very pretty car. They were all killed of by the fuss Ralph Nader made about cars with swing axle rear suspension.
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look a bit like one
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Good amp for £35 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acoustic-R...item5d43767ec8
Ralph Nader certainly put paid to the Chevvy Corvair, but he wasn't responsible for the demise of the grand-daddy of all the horrendous rear-engine swing-axle concoctions, the VW Beetle. Curiously, that honour goes to the NSU Ro80! By the early 70s, the Beetle was years out of date, and VW lacked the imagination to replace it with anything more adventurous than the awful Combi or the even more awful 411. At the same time, tiny NSU had taken a great leap into the 21st century with the Ro80, but had bitten off more than they could chew and were forced into bankruptcy by development costs and terrible warranty problems with the Wankel. Into the breach leapt VW, and bought the wreck. Unknown to the world, NSU had also developed a more conventionally engineered little brother to the Ro80 which VW released a few months later as the VW K70. Excellent though it was, it didn't set the world on fire. The same could not be said for it's direct descendant though. That was the Golf, and the rest is history. So all your Golfs, Passats, Scirrocos and Polos aren't really VWs at all. They're NSUs.