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Stockholm VW Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 7:56 pm Post subject: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Years ago I had a mint 62 Corvair Monza. What a car!!!!
Aircooled boxer 6 in the rear. 4 on the floor. Buckets and an ultra light steering. You think the bug’s handling is sketchy at the limit? Try a Monza. 😎
What are your thoughts? Should they be allowed in here? |
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12692 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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I had a '65 Corsa turbo. Two door hard top, buckets, 4 speed, telescopic steering wheel, all the gauges. Last year for the turbo engine, first year for the new body style and the 4 joint rear suspension. Beautiful car! Handled like a dream. Still kicking my asp for selling it but hard times tend to dictate... and it was a toy. |
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mukluk Samba Member
Joined: October 18, 2012 Posts: 7020 Location: Clyde, TX
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:21 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Neat cars but they aren't a VW, so they belong in the Off Topic section. _________________ 1960 Ragtop w/Semaphores "Inga" |
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vwracerdave Samba Member
Joined: November 11, 2004 Posts: 15299 Location: Deep in the 405
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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No, they don't belong here on a VW page. They have their own forum. _________________ 2017 Street Comp Champion - Thunder Valley Raceway Park - Noble, OK
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
Joined: June 13, 2004 Posts: 12466
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 8:15 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Stockholm VW wrote: |
Years ago I had a mint 62 Corvair Monza. What a car!!!!
Aircooled boxer 6 in the rear. 4 on the floor. Buckets and an ultra light steering. You think the bug’s handling is sketchy at the limit? Try a Monza. 😎
What are your thoughts? Should they be allowed in here? |
You aren’t the first one to post Corvair and this is off topic. Do a search for Corvair. My dad had a 63 Monza 500, red with black interior bucket seats. That car ran great in stock form would burn rubber off the line and catch again going into 2nd. It was a 4 speed. Because of the unique design of cooling fan the belt would jump off if driver got rpm too high fast. I can still hear that flat 6 sound, it’s beautiful.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...p;start=40
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=653110 |
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12692 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:43 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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My first reaction was "Heck Yes!" but then on second thought - us other air cooled guys (motorcycles and model airplanes) might want some space here too... |
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 6:06 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Define off topic then there will be no more grey area. Seems like it gets made up by those with power to delete or lock subjects they don’t like. Hey it’s your site you can do whatever. Several years ago One of the two political factions which are always at one another’s ass just shut off the power and killed the microphones when something they didn’t want to hear was being said. However it’s a fine line between order and chaos. Recently a certain few came here just to troll and be assholes.
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=276153 |
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mukluk Samba Member
Joined: October 18, 2012 Posts: 7020 Location: Clyde, TX
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 7:29 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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mukluk wrote: |
Neat cars but they aren't a VW, so they belong in the Off Topic section. |
For anybody scratching their head, this thread was originally posted in a VW section of the forum. _________________ 1960 Ragtop w/Semaphores "Inga" |
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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mark tucker Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2009 Posts: 23937 Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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eye wuz looken at one and talking to the owner on saturday... is said it runs great, only takes about 30 seconds to get to 60mph, has a few oil leaking spots....yup it wuz somethen. |
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EverettB Administrator
Joined: April 11, 2000 Posts: 69801 Location: Phoenix Metro
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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mukluk wrote: |
mukluk wrote: |
Neat cars but they aren't a VW, so they belong in the Off Topic section. |
For anybody scratching their head, this thread was originally posted in a VW section of the forum. |
Yes, I moved it and should have posted something like "Moved"
I usually do that to prevent confusion so I take all the blame here. _________________ How to Post Photos
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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mark tucker wrote: |
eye wuz looken at one and talking to the owner on saturday... is said it runs great, only takes about 30 seconds to get to 60mph, has a few oil leaking spots....yup it wuz somethen. |
^^^^^ this is an example of eating paint chips as a kid^^^^^^^ |
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KTPhil Samba Member
Joined: April 06, 2006 Posts: 33990 Location: Conejo Valley, CA
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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I love the Corvair. Of course, it's design heavily borrowed from Porsche and VW, but then remember this was the conservative GM we are talking about. I applaud anyone who pushed GM to move outside their comfort zone. If only there were more that that in the terrible late '70s and early '80s... maybe they wouldn't have had their clocks cleaned in the marketplace.
Look at the few bright points, like the Corvair, the EV-1, and Saturn.
All were WAY out of the norm for GM. In fact, good for GM to wise up and break Saturn into its own division to keep it from being "GM-ized" and killed off. Of course, once it came back under GM it did just that.
All three started as unofficial projects and had someone behind them who knew how to nurture the projects far enough to stay under GM's conservative radar to keep them alive until even GM had to pursue them further.
Compare the Corvair to the other subcompacts of the day, and you see how far ahead it was, and how much farther the design platform could have been taken.
Damn Ralph Nader!
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Volktales Samba Member
Joined: June 21, 2013 Posts: 545 Location: Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 10:37 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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I have been actively looking for a Corvair for well over a year now. Very few in my area, and with what is going on in the world, cars outside my country are out of the question. I am sure something will come my way eventually... _________________ 1974 "Restfalia" Camper 2000 cc EFI 2001-
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22638 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:42 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Zundfolge1432 wrote: |
mark tucker wrote: |
eye wuz looken at one and talking to the owner on saturday... is said it runs great, only takes about 30 seconds to get to 60mph, has a few oil leaking spots....yup it wuz somethen. |
^^^^^ this is an example of eating paint chips as a kid^^^^^^^ |
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mark tucker Samba Member
Joined: April 08, 2009 Posts: 23937 Location: SHALIMAR ,FLORIDA
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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just trying to keep you guys sharp!!! |
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688GUY Samba Member
Joined: November 23, 2012 Posts: 47 Location: Fort Payne, AL
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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My dad had a Corvair around '68, he traded a long haired daushound for it, but ended up pushing it off a cliff because the fan belts kept coming off, LOL! |
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andk5591 Samba Member
Joined: August 29, 2005 Posts: 16757 Location: State College, PA
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:49 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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Love 65 and up. I think the body is one of the most beautiful that GM did. And I have seriously pondered buying one, BUT with 5 VWs on the road and 2 projects, I know what would happen if I got one..or two...or three...LOL _________________ D-Dubya Manx clone - 63 Short pan,1914.
Rosie 65 bug - My mostly stock daily driver.
Woodie 69 VW woodie (Hot VWs 7/12).
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Zundfolge1432 Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:20 am Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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688GUY wrote: |
My dad had a Corvair around '68, he traded a long haired daushound for it, but ended up pushing it off a cliff because the fan belts kept coming off, LOL! |
https://www.corvairforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11865 |
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Chickensoup Samba Member
Joined: January 06, 2018 Posts: 5368 Location: Good Hope, GA
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2020 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: Corvair… love or hate? |
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mark tucker wrote: |
just trying to keep you guys sharp!!! |
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