[V8Vairs] Front Cover and Video

[kevin baxter]

Hey Paul,

Hey Paul,

The Corvair (particularly the late model, in my opinion) is such sleek and sporty design. Anyone who can't see that is obviously a clueless moron, and undeserving to gaze upon such beauty anyway! (lol!)

I dollied-out the Cidco rear and trans (from behind my wife's bar :-) to my shop last evening. I'd separated them years ago, sending the trans off with Bob Coffin for installation of brand-new Crown parts. 

I spent the rest of the evening gathering bits and pieces from the house, garage and elsewhere. Unearthed the following new goodies: Coffin front and rear tubular sway bars, dual brake master and clutch master/slave set-up, quick steering arms, Kevlar brake shoes w/new spring/hardware kits (drums still all around for now) Crown rear strut rod bracket, aluminum strut rods and stainless (small, forward-mounted) control rods, all new front suspension components including Delrin bushings, ball joints, tie rods and ends, thermostatically-controlled radiator cooling fan, shifter bushings, clutch/brake pedal bushings, new pedal rubber pads and a few other items. 

I am preparing to remove the motor and scrap the home-made sub-frame. I plan to modify (shorten) the Crown sub-frame per an example I saw on an excellent Corv-8 car a few years ago at the Palm Springs FBT. Once sub-frame, engine and rear suspension (I rebuilt the rear w/Delrin bushings years ago, but never reassembled) are assembled into car, I will drop the front suspension sub-frame and rebuild everything, including welding-up seams on sub-frame for extra strength, etc. 

I'm spending the Holiday and next few days camping/dirt-biking in the desert, but will be sure to get some pictures of the Cidco stuff and forward to you as soon as I get back this weekend. Yeee-Haaaaa!

Kev



--- On Wed, 11/10/10, paulsiano at aol.com <paulsiano at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: paulsiano at aol.com <paulsiano at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8Vairs] Front Cover and Video
> To: "discussion of non-stock engines in Corvairs" <v8vairs at corvair.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 7:00 AM
>  
>  
> Thanks Kevin.  Some times at car shows I'll sort of stand
> back and listen to comments.  Most "car guys" who aren't
> "purists" seem to really like it.  People who aren't into
> cars shake their heads walk away and wonder why anybody
> would want something like that.   
> I also watch people's faces as they approach...it has
> brought a lot of smiles.
>  
> Paul
>  
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/10/10, kevin baxter <quartzhillbilly at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: kevin baxter <quartzhillbilly at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8Vairs] Front Cover and Video
> To: "discussion of non-stock engines in Corvairs" <v8vairs at corvair.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:58 AM
> 
> 
> Paul, 
> 
> Saturate! Saturate!!! Loving every minute of it! What a
> beautiful and functional machine. There isn't a soul out
> here who isn't immensely enjoying watching your car being
> put through its paces, I assure you!
> 
> Well done!
> Kevin
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/9/10, paulsiano at aol.com
> <paulsiano at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: paulsiano at aol.com
> <paulsiano at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [V8Vairs] Front Cover and Video
> > To: "V-8 Vairs" <v8vairs at corvair.org>,
> virtualvairs-request at corvair.org
> > Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:04 AM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I don't want to oversaturate everybody with the car's
> > recent publicity and this video is a work in progress,
> but
> > for those interested...
> >  
> > http://vimeo.com/16528369
> >  
> > the password is: corveight
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > The front cover picture of the magazine is attached to
> this
> > email.
> >  
> > All this publicity is new to me.  It's hard to
> > believe this is the same car that sat in the back of
> my
> > garage untouched, sometimes for years.  
> >  
> > Paul 
> > 
> > 
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