[FC] What's Up!

[Bryan Blackwell]

Roughly speaking, all Corvair restorations are money losing 
propositions but that's really true for most collector cars anyway.  
That said, most parts are inexpensive, the only high dollar FC items 
that come to mind are a few trim parts (NOS rear reflectors are big 
bucks) so you lose a lot less money with a Corvair than a Corvette.  
Ours is a nice looking driver and has been quite reasonable (we have 
about $6k in it total).  There is little if any premium for an 8 door 
over any other GB, the market is just too small.  The two big Corvair 
vendors are Clark's Corvair Parts and Corvair Underground, but there 
are quite a few small and specialty vendors as well.  Surf over to 
http://www.corvair.org and click on vendors or see the classifieds 
there to get an idea of who's out there.  Good luck!

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 07:07 PM, rexrogers@type2guy.com wrote:

> I'm basically just wanting a realistic idea on the value of the van 
> and what he'd be looking at if he decided to commit to restoring it. 
> Where to get parts...rarity of certain parts...all that kind of stuff.
>
Bryan Blackwell bryan@skiblack.com
http://autoxer.skiblack.com/
   Corvairs: '61 Lakewood, '64 Greenbrier, '65 Corsa, '66 Corsa
   '69 Road Runner, '97 Ford F-150, '99 Neon R/T
"Why do something if you're not going to obsess about it?"