The 1961 Corvair Lakewood Station Wagon!

You don't see many Corvairs these days. And you definitely don't see any Corvair station wagons.

This one, at the spring Chevy/Vette Fest, looks exactly like the one used in a color commercial where Dinah Shore was introducing the '61 Chevys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gdtyF1rKb8&feature=related

Same blue, same white roof. I'm sure they built more than one. Still, if it could only talk and tell me if it's the same one that had its 10 seconds of fame holding Dinah's matching set of luggage.

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• Chicago
• Chevrolet
• Chevy
• Corvair
• Lakewood
• station
• wagon
• blue
• white
• rear
• engine
• Dinah
• Shore
• commercial

[degingtb]

Nice. Never seem one in 46yrs. My bother has a 65 covair 2 door.

[artistmac]

@degingtb The only other one I've ever seen since about 1965 was a red one a couple of years ago at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights.

[spdskte]

with the motor in the back enclosed within the passenger compartment, you would think exhaust might have been a problem.

[artistmac]

No, not necessarily. Volkswagen Squarebacks and Buses, Corvair Greenbriers and Toyota's first minivans did just fine. The problem, as with front-engine cars, is a leaky exhaust system that can let fumes into the interior. Again, that dirty word, maintenance.

[thespeez]

Is that a 500 or 700 model?

[artistmac]

700.

[redradiodog]

I had a 61 Corvair Lakewood wagon in the late sixties. Transaxle started leaking transmission fluid so I gave it away. I didn't realize how rare they were. Sob.

[vintageautosupply]

We have two Lakewoods in our Corvair car club....one owned by Matt Wetzel(whidh is being restored) and the other by Carl Sanders(a daily DRIVER).....they will both be on the Corvair Run to Denver for the Corsa Convention around July 26th - 30th. Come Join US!!!

[lasuvidaboy]

That was my mom's first new car after getting married. As I remember, you could take the key out of the ignition while it was running! It was replaced a few years later by full-sized Chrysler station wagons.

[NcalBiker]

Oh how pretty. My neighbor had one, the same color when I was a kid. He parked it next to his Blue and White '59 El Camino. Early Corvair's were truly a beautifully sculptured car. And fun to drive too. Even a Lakewood with a two speed automatic was enjoyable to cruise to the beach, or down the highway in. A very comfortable ride, with ample leg room in the back seat.

[animalcorvair]

it was not

[Paulosoy]

i wonder if the heat and fumes from the engine, came inside the interior in those cars?

[Seattlecarnut]

That's what happens when you combine liquor and idiotic driving, accident and possible death.