On another thread I mentioned that I once owned a Corvair... Well, that's not true as I've owned two and a half of them... More on the half part...

My last one was a '66 Corsa, 110 hp, 4 speed, white with red & white guts (interior)... And it was a sweet... I actually owned it while I was working as a precinct captain in 2000 and had my Nader/2000 decal on the back... For those of you who don't recall, Ralph Nader published a book entitled "Unsafe at Any Speed" about the Corvair... Guess Nader and I didn't see eye-to-eye on everything...

My first 'Vair was a basket case when I bought it and a not much improved when I sold it...

Speakin' of basket cases, I bought an old Volkswagen with a Corvair engine sitting next to it on a pallet... There was also an adapter kit - or some of it - and so I bought it, towed the bug home and threw the Corvair engine in a buddies truck...

Couple weeks later, I had the Corvair engine bolted in and wired and running and all was well, right??? Well, not excatly... Ya' see, the Corvair engine runs backwards from the VW engine which meant when I invited all my freinds for the test drive the car had 1 really strong first gear and 4 others that went backwards???

So, that meant taking the engine back out, pulling thr VW transaxle which is a pain in the butt, shifting the gear carrier in the transaxle from one side to the other... I had just finished that part when a buddy came by and said that he knew someone who was interested in the car and I was gettin' a little tired of the project so...

... I sold it to this guy and went on to something else...

But Corvairs have always had a special place in my memories and heart...

B~