When did Corvair development stop? Before Richard Langworth’s article on the topic in SIA #68, April 1982, many people considered that date to be sometime in 1965, just before the second generation ‘Vair was released. But with a bevy of documentation on a series of sketches, renderings and clays, all provided by Chuck Jordan (along with a healthy dose of speculation), Langworth makes the case for the continued development of the Corvair with an eye on revamping it in the early 1970s with some substantial changes.
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On a semi-timely note: Paul Niedermeyer over at TTAC collected several pics of Corvair one-offs by Pininfarina, Bertone, and GM.