[V8Vairs] How many Crown kits were sold and what is the best guess of how many are on the road these days?

[Paul Strohl]

I bought one and my v8 vair is still on the road but I’m using a 4 sod Saginaw transmission with a will’s adapter plate to the corvair differential 

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> On Nov 9, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Archibald Evans <ade383 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Ted told me he ordered 15,000 full size Saginaw output shafts from GM in 1967 to modify for CorV8 kits. Yes that is not a typo, fifteen thousand. I was stunned when he told me too. GM sent a team (8-10 as I recall the story) of engineers to Crown Mfg. because they thought there was a defect. When Ted showed them what he was up to they all had a good laugh and went back to GM reporting no issues. Ted said he estimated 5 thousand conversions went for Corvairs, 5 thousand for kit cars (Mantas, Lazer 917s and such) and 5 thousand for buggies and off road cars... ADE
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> From: V8Vairs <v8vairs-bounces at corvair.org> on behalf of Paul Siano <paulsiano at yahoo.com>
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> Paul Siano
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