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Two-part video at and doesn't mention leaving one behind. Three cars shown at 7:10 of part 2, then just two at 7:45.
Re: Run Through the Jungle in a Corvair
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:26 am
by bbodie52
The total of the three videos and the articles you referred to are really fascinating Corvair-related history! It requires a willingness to settle-in invest some time, but the total story is really a fun Corvair adventure. I've combined the three videos and link articles below, and I highly recommend them to Corvair enthusiasts!
Into the Gap: Three Cars Enter, Two Cars Leave By Thomas Kreutzer on August 27, 2013
At almost 30,000 miles in length, the Pan American Highway links two of the Earth’s four corners. It traverses 18 countries as it wends its way from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on the extreme Northern edge of the North American Continent to the city of Ushuaia on the very tip of South America’s Isla Grand de Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina. In some places, the road is gravel, in others hard cement, and in still others it is a simple dirt path. In one place, it’s even imaginary. Yes I said imaginary, because, you see, the truth is that the Pan American Highway is a fraud. Thanks to 57 mile stretch of swampy, dense jungle that forms the border between Colombia and Panama, an area known as the Darien Gap, the Northern and Southern portions of the Highway are not joined together. That fact, however, mattered little when, in 1961, Chevrolet decided that their recently introduced Corvair would make the trip, road or not....
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2013/ ... ars-leave/
