[FC] Re: Trailer hitch for GB

[Michael E. Sweaney]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Steinberg" <noahsarkinc@earthlink.net>
To: <corvanatics@corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] Re: Trailer hitch for GB
Paul
As best I can tell it was put on with a bunch of spot welds.  That is what
the assembly manual says.  The cut off job wasn't done with any grace.  They
cut it off at the posts and then cut across the top even with the back edge
of the side door.  Over the engine it is still in place.  Mike

> since you have a van that has had the top cut off of it, could you answer
some
> questions that I have about the removal of the top panel.  Is it welded on
or
> was it glued down?  Where is the seam..... at the edge of the rain gutter
or
> is the gutter put on after the roof panel?  My FC has a large hole in the
roof
> where someone made a pop top to put onto it.  I want to put it back to
> original, but haven't decided how to best do this project.  They even cut
the
> bows out and they will have to be rewelded in before the roof is
> installed..... thanks for any help that you can give me on this
project.......
> Paul in CT
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Michael E. Sweaney
>   To: CORVANATICS
>   Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:36 PM
>   Subject: [FC] Re: Trailer hitch for GB
>
>
>   Bruce and all
>   >Don't forget the engine - 164 inch FC case.  If you decide to sell some
>   >stuff, don't forget to tell us where you are (city, state, country :-)
>   When the guys dropped it off here and I saw it was a "64 I was excited
>   because that is was I was hoping for.  Unfortunately the engine has been
>   replaced with what I believe to be a "63 engine.  But it is an FC
engine.
> I
>   won't really know until I get the thing out but I am pretty sure it is
an
> 80
>   HP engine.  It is a "W" engine.
>   The way this happened is kind of a sad story.  I had an extremely dead
"61
>   Greenbrier in the back that I was cleaning parts off of and the only
thing
>   left was the body and that was it.  I had it hauled off and three weeks
>   later a guy I know said that he and his friend wanted a steel top for an
> old
>   1930's F--D and had cut the roof off an old Corvan.  They didn't know
>   anything about it other than it was a Corvan and wanted to know if I
wanted
>   to yank parts off before it got crushed.  Of course I said yes.  When it
>   arrived it was a complete "64 van that would have been very restorable.
> But
>   the top was cut completely off.  I told them that if they had called me
>   three weeks earlier they could have had the top off the GB.  That was
the
>   only thing on it that was good.  They cut up a somewhat rare van.
That's
>   the way it goes sometimes.
>   Now, if I can only keep the tornado's from getting it.  The one
yesterday
>   was about 2+ miles south of us.  The weather man says that mother nature
> may
>   try again today.
>   Fraidy hole ready
>   Michael E. Sweaney
>   _______________________________________________
>   Corvanatics mailing list
>   Corvanatics@corvair.org
>   http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/listinfo/corvanatics
> _______________________________________________
> Corvanatics mailing list
> Corvanatics@corvair.org
> http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/listinfo/corvanatics