Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Info On The 1960 Chevrolet Corvair 700

The Corvair's Timber was in the front.

Size

The Corvair had a 108-inch wheelbase.


Types


There were two trim levels for the 1960 Corvair -- the Series Seven hundred and the Series 500. The Seven hundred was available as either a two-door club coupe or a four-door sedan. Prices for the Corvair Seven hundred ranged from $1,870 to $1,920.


Engine


The 1960 Corvair Seven hundred had an air-cooled engine in the rear of the van. The 140-cubic-inch, horizontally opposed, valve-in-head six-cylinder engine produced Eighty horsepower.The Corvair was introduced in One thousand nine hundred sixty to compete with Non-native compact cars. This motorcar received a fat deal of annulling keeping, and Industry of the Corvair ceased after the One thousand nine hundred sixty nine mould year. It has on account of develop into a collector's object. The autonym "Corvair" comes from a combination of Chevy's Corvette and Bel Air names.



The machine was One hundred eighty inches drawn out, 66.9 inches Broad and Fifty one inches high. It weighed 2,292 lbs. and had an 11-gallon Gauze receptacle. The coupe could seat five, and the sedan could seat six.


Considerations


Early Corvairs had handling problems considering of the engine's position at the rear of the machine; drivers would oftentimes lose authority when cornering. The problems were constant by 1965, but Chevrolet could not overcome the negative reputation the earlier models had earned and discontinued the model a few years later.