correct name was "JETFIRE"
Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com> wrote:
At 07:29 AM 9/29/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>It was turbo-supercharged. I believe the Corvair Monza Spyder was the
first
>>mass-produced car to use a turbo.
>
>NOPE. Buick had a turbo F-85 (?) in the late 50s. It even had
>factory water injection.
Nope again :-). Buick never had a turbo back then. The other GM Turbo was
the Oldsmobile Starfire (same chassis as the F-85 however) with a
turbocharged Buick V-6. The Starfire came out in '62, same as the Corvair,
but was built for 2 years only before being dropped.
- Alan Dahl
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