<VV> Body Transplant

[Roger Gault]

Joe,
Well, of course it's essentially free if you can resist the "As long as I'm
in here..." demon.  Which would make you a better man than I.

I've done it, and it's not all that much work if you're just swapping parts
from one car to the other.
When I did it to my '65 Monza convert, I had a wasted Corsa coupe as a
donor.  Swapped everything but the rear trailing arms and hubs and the
mechanisms inside the doors.  No, wait, I kept the e-brake cable and the
brake lines.  Maybe I kept the tail lights, but I had them off in the
process.  And, I kept the tele column, but I had to pull and rebuild it.
It's not all that much harder than stripping one for a really serious paint
job.

The choice boils down to doing simple mechanical work, which anybody can do
that would be silly enough to contemplate this, or doing/paying for the rust
repair bodywork, which takes considerable skill or money.

I've considered doing it again, as over the last 25 years the convert has
developed rocker panel cancer, which has metastasized to some other areas.
But, then I couldn't say, "Yeah, I've been driving this sucker for 25 years.
Restored it from junk."  Major bragging rights down the drain.  Pride
triumphs over intelligence again, I'm going to fix it.  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N. Joseph Potts" <pottsf at msn.com>
To: "Corvair List" <virtualvairs at skiblack.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 8:29 AM
Subject: <VV> Body Transplant


> Is there anyone on the list who has taken a Corvair body (no power train,
no
> brakes, no suspension, no interior) and "inhabited" it with Corvair
running
> gear to create a whole Corvair?
>      If so, please raise your hand and tell us what it cost, and what you
> consider it to have been worth.
>      It sounds to me as though it could be more-difficult than repairing
> SOME rust damage, even IF you have all the right parts to completely
outfit
> the new body right on hand (say, in the car whose body is being replaced).
>
> Joe Potts
> Miami, Florida USA
> 1966 Corsa coupe 140hp 4-speed with A/C
>
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