A 1962 Chevrolet Corvair with air-cooled boxer-six engine and two-speed Powerglide automatic transmission, found in a Colorado junkyard.
Recently, we took a look at a solid late-production Chevy Corvair coupe in a Denver junkyard, and some readers couldn't believe that anybody would throw away such a rare classic. Hold onto your hats, Corvair fans, because eight Corvairs just showed up in the inventory of a yard in Colorado Springs. Because we just saw a coupe from the final couple of years of Corvair production, I've selected an early four-door sedan from the eightsome to follow it in this series.
The U-Pull-&-Pay employees I asked about these cars told me that a man brought them all in at once and told them that he had quite a few more Corvairs. I'm guessing that this is the result of a Corvair enthusiast with a storage lot purging unneeded parts cars. This car was built during at the Oakland Assembly plant in California, where production of the Chevrolet Four-Ninety kicked off in 1916. Oakland Assembly shut down in 1963, to be replaced by Fremont Assembly about 25 miles to the southeast. The site of Oakland Assembly is Eastmont Town Center today.
The optional AM-only radio was a $57 option, which comes to about $596 in 2024 dollars . Note the scary triangle-in-a-circle Civil Defense symbols at 640 and 1240 kHz; those indicated the CONELRAD stations that would give instructions in case Tupolev Tu-95s were on their way bearing thermonuclear bombs.
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