The last Corvair-powered UltraVan to be completed in Oakland is yet another cipher, about which we know very little.
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| January 1979, Frontier Town, El Cajon CA |
Dave Peterson's customer list shows that #210 was delivered to Jim Carini of Oakland in October of 1965 (two months after the agreement to transfer production to Kansas had been signed). Noel & Elaine Koller of Bonita CA changed their Club membership from
#206 to #210 in 1985 (for one year only). And Floyd & Joyce Sickenberger of Keystone Heights FL changed their Club membership from
#473 to #210 in 1987 (again for just the one year).
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| January 1979, Frontier Town, El Cajon CA |
Christy Barden's "First 24 UltraVans" article in the
Fall 1992 Whales on Wheels newsletter shows that #210 was a 22 foot long coach that was later converted to use a Dodge engine and chassis. Jim Craig stated in 2011 that Noel Koller had a coach with a steel truck frame under it that he remembers seeing in a RV sales lot in Santa Ana CA in the mid 1980s.
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| January 1979, Frontier Town, El Cajon CA |
Pictures of the January 1979 Frontier Town rally show two Oakland coaches; the first appears to be
#205. Since Noel & Elaine Koller attended that rally it is possible that the other could be their
#206 (if they had added a front-mounted spare tire, a large driver side mirror, and a blue stripe) or their #210 (if they owned it six years prior to registering it with the Club).
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| #210 or #206? |
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