<VV> Steering Shaft -Human spear

[Kent Sullivan]

As the person who did the first Sebring seat conversion, and wrote it up for
the Communique, perhaps you-all would be interested in knowing that I love
totally-stock Corvairs. Three of my four are in that category; one
completely so and the other two very nearly so.

But that's the great thing about Corvairs--they are relatively inexpensive
and relatively plentiful, so I can have my cake and eat it too. That's what
my '66 500 coupe is about. It's more or less what many folks call a "resto
mod" these days. Looks pretty stock if you don't know that much about
Corvairs but it has a lot of little things different. It's very fun to try
different things but still keep the car what I still consider to be a
Corvair. I think of it as "What might Chevy have done if they had made a 3rd
generation car?"

--Kent
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Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: <VV> Steering Shaft -Human spear

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See, this is what I'm talking about.  I definitely WON'T be doing this with
mine.  If I'd wanted a Sebring, I would have bought one.  I drove a Sebring
convertible recently and it wasn't a bad car to drive. I kind of liked it.
I like my Corvair better though and I don't want to turn it into a Sebring.
If my Corvair was my only car and I just couldn't find a way to buy a newer
car, then maybe I'd add what I could to make it "safe".  I like the skinny
steering wheel and the bare metal dash and the pointy switches.  I wouldn't
mind headrests and if I ever find a set for a '65 (that didn't cost sooooo
much) I'd put them in.  I'll look into the shoulder belt business.  But I'm
not putting headrests or shoulder belts from some other car into my Corvair.
It's not show car but I like its "60's-ness".  I want to keep it that way.
I'm not putting in disk breaks (with or without ABS) or fuel injection, I'm
not even putting in an electric fuel pump or electronic ignition. I have put
on radial tires and there are viton orings in the engine so I will make some
concessions to the modern age.  I even put an electric window washer pump in
but that's because I couldn't find a bellows for the old mechanical pump.  

People can do what they want with their cars but I'm not modyfing mine so
much it's hardly a Corvair anymore.

mike

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