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Re: [GMCnet] Toyota coverup [message #73578] Thu, 11 February 2010 17:44 Go to next message
David L Greenberg is currently offline  David L Greenberg   United States
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:05:59 -0600 Craig Lechowicz
<craig.lechowicz@sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>
>Snip............
. I think Alex Mair was General
> Manager of GMC and not Chevy when GMC m/h's were being built,
> although it's hard for me to keep the years straight.

There were the usual Mgmt changes over the years but at the time the GMC
motorhome was announced Martin Caserio was GMC GM and I think
Alex Maire was GM Truck & Coach GM.

I know many of the top execs at GM and GM T&C maintained a very high
level of interest in this product. Wallace (Wally) Edwards, who was a VP
at T&C told me Ed Cole actually selected the color for the first display
coach to be shown in Louisville in Nov 72. The color was picked off of
Wally's
tie, which became Bittersweet Orange.

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Re: [GMCnet] Toyota coverup [message #73606 is a reply to message #73578] Fri, 12 February 2010 01:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Craig Lechowicz is currently offline  Craig Lechowicz   United States
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Dave,
Thanks for the added info. I was always disappointed that I first came to GM just about the time GMC motorhomes were winding down (August of '77 for GMI) and missed any involvement with them. Plus in those days I was with Chevy and the people at GMC were the enemy! Never knew Ed Cole, but that man was truly a legend. Discovery Channel did a 1 hour special on him a number of years ago, and he was just amazing. Among many other things did the initial version of the classic Chevy small block motor, a design so good that it stayed in production in recognizable form for over 40 years. (Gen III's were only distantly related), did the Corvair, GMC motorhome involvement, Wankel engines, and all kinds of stuff.

Looks like our own Bill Brown wrote the GMC portion of the Wiki history and it mentions the tie story you related about 1/3 of the way down as well. I had missed that the 1st time I saw it. <http://wiki.gmnext.com/wiki/index.php/The_GMC_MotorHome>

I love reading stuff like this.

Craig Lechowicz
'77 Kingsley, Waterford, MI

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Re: [GMCnet] Toyota coverup [message #73624 is a reply to message #73606] Fri, 12 February 2010 10:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
bryant374 is currently offline  bryant374   United States
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Looks like our own Bill Brown wrote the GMC portion of the Wiki history and it mentions the tie story you related about 1/3 of the way down as well. I had missed that the 1st time I saw it. <http://wiki.gmnext.com/wiki/index.php/The_GMC_MotorHome>

I love reading stuff like this.


Sheesh.....can't the right guy get a little credit....I wrote that history, not Bill Brown.

Bill Bryant
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Re: [GMCnet] Toyota coverup [message #73626 is a reply to message #73578] Fri, 12 February 2010 10:41 Go to previous message
Craig Lechowicz is currently offline  Craig Lechowicz   United States
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Bill,
Oops, my apologies - - that's what I get for posting late at night. Great article even on the re-read.

Craig Lechowicz
'77 Kingsley, Waterford, MI

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