<VV> Bradley/Corvair project?

[Roger Gault]

Arjay,
My thoughts are:
1)  If you're worried about resale value, run away.  It will cost you many
times what you can sell it for.
2)  If you're worried about it being too much work, run away.  You can't
imagine.....
3)  If you don't get insane giggling joy from looking a some moron previous
owner's screwups, run away.

I passed all those tests, so I recently bought an Avenger GT-15, Corvair
powered "project" car.  I figure 3 years to get it "finished".  If I'm
lucky, I'll only have $10K in a $4K car that's not as much fun to drive as
my Corsa convert.

A running VW powered Bradley with only one broken gull window recently sold
on E-bay for just over $2K.  $900 to ship it across the country, <$1500 to
convert it to Corvair, and you'd be way ahead if what you want is to
own/drive one.  If you want a long hobby project, the rules are different.

Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arjay Morgan" <n3lkz at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Bradley/Corvair project?


> I wonder if anyone in the group knows anything about the Bradley kit car??
I heard about one, powered by a reverse-rotating Corvair engine that's
available for $500. All I know about it is that the engine is not running,
it needs floorpans and the gullwing doors are broken.
>
>   I've seen the Bradleys, mostly VW powered, at car shows and they are a
really neat looking car. However, my gut instinct tells me that subject
Bradley is much more of a project than I'm willing to take on. In fact, my
suspicion is that since it's a kit car it'll have zero value no matter how
much one puts into it despite the sterling merits of the Corvair powerplant.
I also suspect that delving into such a beast is probably way more
problematic than building the kit right out of the box(es).
>
>   Hopefully, the combined wisdom of VV will descend on me like summertime
thunder telling me, "don't do it boy. Don't go near dat tar pit."
>   Or maybe not.
>
>   Arjay Morgan
>   64 Monza convert (Not lonely for a stablemate)
>
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