This is my latest segment. It will be a frequent blathering of car stuff – current and maybe some old stuff. I hope you enjoy it.
I’ve visited the Bowling Green assembly plant a few times and it never grows old. The last time I was there they were expanding the plant to include Chevy Volt production and (not releasable at that time) and this as well:
The new Corvette Stingray will be built at GM’s Bowling Green, Ky., assembly plant, which underwent a $131-million upgrade, including approximately $52 million for a new body shop to manufacture the aluminum frame in-house for the first time.
Check out my post from one of my visits Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant Tour…AWESOME!!
OOOHHH….I’d work there!!!
I did a post from a car show down on the border and covered a corvair with a Ralph Nader for President bumper sticker which was a hoot. (See it here Corvair – The Last Car .) But one Corvair I haven’t seen in years at a car show or anywhere is the Lakewood.
1962 Lakewood
There’s a good reason for this. These Corvair station wagons were only made in 1961 and 1962. Only 33,271 wagons were produced in those two years. A subset of those were the Monza of 1962. Only 2567 of those wagons were produced.
A there were a couple of engine the 80 horse power Turbo Air and a 98 horse powered Super Turbo Charge.
That makes me think I need to do post on just Corvairs.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
