<VV> Corvair Ownership

[Bill Elliott]

With any collector car, the smartest way is to buy the best, most 
restored car you can afford. In the long run, it's virtually always the 
cheapest way... it costs more to get a given car to a given condition 
than most cars in that condition are worth.

So you did it the smart way.... though through ownership and use of any 
old car you will get some mechanical experience. (I never meant to 
become a mechanic but daily driving an MG will do that to you!) The good 
news is, if you can read a cookbook you can read a shop manual!

My wife (with what sounds like a similar level of mechanical experience 
that you have) did a 10,000 mile trip this summer with a Corvair-powered 
VW camper... a trip which many of us with a lot more experience would 
not take lightly.... and learned a lot through the experience. So I 
don't think you'll miss much ownership experience.... it will just 
likely come in different doses...

Bill



Connie Brummer wrote:

>Come on guys..........I come here to relax and learn something.  What I'm
>learning lately is that its less stressful to go to work than to check my
>email.  At work I have to play nice with the other children or I get an
>unpaid vacation. <G>
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>I paid too much for my Vair.  Because I don't have the knowledge or ability
>to rebuild one mechanically (and I would be waiting years for my man to find
>the time), I opened the checkbook to buy one already rebuilt.  I truly
>admire you guys fixing things with mayonnaise lids and such and think I may
>have missed some of the true adventure of corvair ownership.  BUT...I
>finally own a vair and love every minute of it.  To each his own.
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>Connie
>Iowa (can't wait to meet Ken out East someday)
>65 Corsa Vert
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