<CORSA Chapters> FW: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary disp lay

Fri Aug 7 09:05:54 EDT 2009

HEY GUYS, great news Cathy has committed her car to bowling green.
Yesterday--Unbelievable. 1100-miles one way. And yesterday John Gundlach's
64 spyder convertible from Saxon, pa is also coming!!!. The generosity  and
sacrifices the Corvair people make never ceases to amaze me.--- we have a
wonderful diverse field w/ a couple of standby's (Pete Koehler has an
assortment to fill in a gap if needed) just in case some unforeseen happens
what a great ace in the hole to have.  BUT NONE OF YOU CANCEL!!! Can you
imagine, ok you got  certain years and models committed from the start and
then they pull out a week ago and you got to replace or revamp the list and
fill in w/ something different, then try not to duplicate because you can't
,you only have 12 spots, and then you want really really nice cars, and you
have to rely on word of mouth because some of them you have never seen
before, and then you want as close to stock as possible, and then they have
to be in your neck of the woods, or be willing to travel across country at
their own expense just to show the world how wonderful and underrated this
quirky little automobile is.  So, I'm back to full circle, it never ceases
to amaze me how wonderful Corvair people are!!!! And I'm sure that when it
is all said and done there will be a certain model missing, All of these are
very beautiful cars.  I'm still looking for a
rampside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got a lot of other things to do the
upcoming weeks and im starting to fill the pinch.  A lot of details to work
out like, how much room left for display cases, finding display cases that
match if at all, car info printed and mounted, gathering memorabilia,
getting back w/ the museum w/ questions I still have, etc. etc.--- you guys
who haven't given me a car description yet, please get it to me, I would
like to cross it off my list.  I AM STARTING TO HAVE FUN NOW!!! Startin to
feel like the week before the 04 convention, the problem is I can't control
this, just hope everyone shows.----I got to get back to work, work--- bill
Hubbell and Pete, I will forward on some pictures of Cathy's car. You were
interested in it earlier.  Pay close attention  to the original bill of
sales, I love the trade in.---Larry, I will phone you hopefully this weekend
and ruin your Sunday dinner, just to touch base w/ you on a couple of
things. Also whoever is coming and wants to stay Thursday/ Friday Oct 1st.
Dave diedrichs told me last night that there is a huge ford show that
weekend at beach bend amusement park just a few miles away, so you might
want to make hotel arrangements soon.  The NCM told me yesterday that the
motel 8 is directly across from the museum and exit 22 off of I-65 is just a
few miles down has numerous hotels.---other than that, chapter presidents,
write your letters, the 12 (I haven't come up w/ a catch phrase yet)  can't
be the dirty dozen, I'll let you all work on the name!!!!  and the 12 get me
your info------have a great day---  thanks again everyone--- Greg

From: Dave Newell [mailto:chevrobilia at juno.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:41 PM
To: kentsu at corvairkid.com
Cc: scarboro at trgpsc.com
Subject: Re: FW: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary
disp lay

Hi Kent & Greg,

That's 1960 #428...a beautiful car that's one of the three less-than-1000
early 1960 Vairs we know of. I featured it on our '60 50th birthday poster
at the convention which I'm attaching. Hope you can get it for Bowling
Green.

The visor sleeves came with every 1960 and 1961 Vair. There were two
versions of the '60, with the earliest having the first design parking
brake. The sleeve was taller in 61 so it would also fit over the Lakewood
visors.

BTW, 428's door panels aren't correct, and were probably replaced with
Clark's panels. All cars before November had solid color door panels with no
stripe.

There's also a story that goes with 428 that it was built on the second day
of production which we know wasn't possible. Supposedly the dealer told the
original owner that. More likely it was built on the 13th or the 11th
(Saturday) at the earliest.

Dave

 ---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Kent Sullivan" <kentsu at corvairkid.com>
To: "'Dave Newell'" <chevrobilia at juno.com>
Subject: FW: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary
display
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:17:51 -0700

Hi,

Am including a couple of photos of the '60 that Greg describes below.

Current owner is Catherine McCafferty, Catherine.McCafferty at shawgrp.com. I
didn't receive a picture of the bill of sale like he described but you could
ask him for it. The sunvisor wrapper is amazing!

--Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Scarboro [mailto:scarboro at trgpsc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 6:14 PM
To: 'Kent Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary
display

I WOULD GESTIMATE ABOUT A THIRD--  I AM GOING TO FORWARD YOU A BEAUTIFUL
SPECIMAN OF A 60--  LOOK CLOSELY AT THE BILL OF SALE-- IT WAS PURCHASED ON
OCOBER 6 1960--  4 DAYS AFTER THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO THE PUBLIC-- ALSO LOOK
AT THE TRADE IN CAR AND THE PRICE THEY GOT ALLOWED FOR IT-- IT IS A
HOOT--THANKS FOR YOUR HELP---GREG

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Sullivan [mailto:kentsu at corvairkid.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:09 PM
To: 'Greg Scarboro'
Subject: RE: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary
display

Hi Greg,

Good work on getting the vehicles so far. There's no way to know how many of
the 1528 '65 Greenbriers had RPO Z60, custom equipment option, because those
records were not kept by GM. Of the 72 rigs in the registry right now, 41
have RPO Z60 (57%), 27 don't, and the tag is missing on 4 of the vans. But
there's no way to know if people saved more of the vans with the deluxe
interior than standard. One could argue that the answer would be Yes.
Meaning, it's hard to say whether 50+% of the 1528 had RPO Z60. All we have
is this sample, and it might be biased.

--Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Scarboro [mailto:scarboro at trgpsc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:49 PM
To: 'Kent Sullivan'
Subject: RE: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary
display

HEY KENT, how you doin? --  got a great show lined up for bowling green---
still looking for a rampside, but I'll get one---I was wondering, do you
know of the 1528 65 briers how many had a deluxe interior package?  Just
curious---don Filkins is bringing his 65 brier, used to belong to jean Allen
of circle city Corvair.--  thanks for your help--Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Sullivan [mailto:kentsu at corvairkid.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:52 PM
To: corvanatics at corvair.org
Cc: 'Greg Scarboro'
Subject: Opportunity to show your FC in a Corvair 50th anniversary display

Hi,

If you live anywhere near the Corvette museum in Bowling Green, KY and your
Loadside, Rampside, or Greenbrier is a super-clean original or a restored
beauty, you have the opportunity to be part of a display that Greg Scarboro
(on Cc: line) is organizing. The display is specifically for the Corvair's
50th anniversary and will run from 10/2 (date Corvairs were first offered
for sale) through 12/31. If you're interested, please contact Greg. Greg
knows what he's doing when it comes to something like this. He was the CORSA
convention chair in 2004.

Thanks,

--Kent

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