<VV> Corvairs "burn"/And today's newb question is.......

[airvair]

And again, like the Corvair air heater, the source of the problem was
OWNER lack of maintainence. Often the Fiero owner would let the car get
low on coolant or oil, or develop oil leaks, and the resultant
overheating or oil dripping on the exhaust manifold or catalytic muffler
did it in.

Americans, as a society, are notorious for neglecting their cars.

With the Corvair, it wasn't dangerous in relation to starting a fire,
but rather exhaust leakage could be dangerous if not lethal. The other
two smells you can get thru the heater are from oil and gas leaks.
Nontheless, I've always said that a Corvair would let you know when it
needed maintainence, in a helofa hurry and in no uncertain terms. Owners
who would rather complain about the smells than get the car serviced
deserve no sympathy from me.

-Mark 

Padgett wrote:
> 
> >Because Corvairs probably had the best protected gas tank of all the  '60's
> >cars I don't know why it started.
> 
> The other rear engined GM car that followed did have a problem with being
> toxic waste and had a recall to avoid fires in the 1984 model.
> 
> Padgett
>