OT: Toy Chevy's

From: TeoZ <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Mon Apr 14 10:37:00 2003

At least the fiberglass keeps them from rusting, saving quite a few of the
cars from the rust heap unlike other cars of their era.


----- Original Message -----
From: "James E. LaBarre" <jamesl_at_bestweb.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Toy Chevy's


> R. D. Davis wrote:
> > Quothe Erik S. Klein, from writings of Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at
04:54:17PM -0700:
> >
> >>Gary Dean Hildebrand writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>>the winning bidder probably has several Corvettes too -- and all they
> >>
> >>are > is a plastic Chevy.
> >>
> >>Bite your tongue, heathen! :)
> >
> >
> > Hey, isn't a Corvette a Chevy that isn't strong enough to move around
> > with a steel body? I heard they had to use fiberglass to make it
> > capable of reasonable performance for a Chevy.
>
> The explanation I've heard was that the production numbers on the
> Corvette were too small to make stamped body panels cost effective.
> Apparently for smaller runs, fiberglass molding is cheaper. Wouldn't
> know what production numbers are now, and if the cost factors are the
> same, but I'm sure that there'd be a big outcry from purists if GM tried
> to go to metal bodies.
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