Thread: subaru and porsche not the only one using flat 6
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Old 10-30-2010, 01:50 PM
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Re: subaru and porsche not the only one using flat 6
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Originally Posted by Sean486 View Post
The father of one of my daughters friends bought a Corvair convertable about the same time I got my SVX. I have to admit it is a pretty cool car. I heard the unsafe reputation was way overblown too.

Anyhow I talked to him about it a few months ago and he told me it was in the shop because "the clutch peddle broke off". I got a good laugh about that. Old cars, they definitely got personality.
At least the corvair came with a clutch pedal. Yes it was slightly overblown. The first 10 years of the Triumph Spitfire had the same rear end set up that the Corvair did. Only difference was it didn't have the engine back there as well. For GM it was a brilliant engineering design, which of course, they only developed it 3/4 of the way initially.
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