<VV> Gas Tank

Harry Yarnell hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 17 10:55:46 EST 2006


Cosidering how difficult it is to remove a gas tank from a Corvair, the LAST 
place I'd look would be a junkyard.
It's probably worse than the one you have...

harry yarnell
perryman garage and orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brandon Muzzin" <overkill11111 at hotmail.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Gas Tank


> Thanks Hank!
> I forgot to ask in my original email, do you think that a 61 tank would 
> fit in a 66? One would never think a junk yard would have a 61 corvair 
> just sittin around but my fiancee insisted she call at least ONE junkyard 
> while i was looking for a part the other day, and the first one she called 
> had a 61 sittin there, i was in shock. in any case, do you know if they 
> are interchangeable?
>
>
>>From: <kaczmarek at charter.net>
>>To: Brandon Muzzin <overkill11111 at hotmail.com>, virtualvairs at corvair.org
>>Subject: Re: <VV> Gas Tank
>>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 6:22:13 -0800
>>
>>---- Brandon Muzzin <overkill11111 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > I have a 66' Monza coupe that I'm working on, I was wondering if it 
>> > were
>> > possible for the gas tank to rust from the inside out?
>>
>>Brandon
>>They can, and they do. Last one I saw was in my friend Erics' 64. he 
>>noticed that the outside of the tank was damp, and the car had been in the 
>>garage for a couple of weeks, no way any water was getting inside the 
>>garage.
>>
>>All gas has some water in it, and in cars that sit for long periods, they 
>>can rust from the inside out.
>>
>>  A GM engineer once told me that his dad (also a GM Engineer in the 60's) 
>> said the Corvair was originally engineered to last about 10 years before 
>> being just about useless.  Of course, we disprove that theory every day. 
>> It's engineering was way ahead of its time, but the high cost of the 
>> engineering left choices to be  made elsewhere.  That's why Arm Rests 
>> were an option on 60 models, for example.  The interiors of the 60&61 
>> models were skimpy compared to what Ford had on the Falcon/Comet and 
>> Plymouth had on the Valiant.
>>
>>Luckily used gas tanks abound, as do new ones.
>>
>>Hank
>>
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