<VV> Modified vs. stock Corvairs

[airvair]

Your statistics are skewed. That's a bit like saying that 100% of all
people born before 1800 are dead, so it's better to be born after that.

To properly address the REAL issue here, one would have to eliminate the
vast numbers of cars that were bought, driven, and then scrapped as part
of the "natural" cycle of production cars. What you have left are, for
the purpose of labeling them, survivors. Some were saved as
"collectable" cars, some as long-term ownership cars, some as
resurrected cars that got a second chance (because someone liked what
they saw), etc. Mostly these would have survived through to the late
'70's or so, after "natural attrition" had eliminated most all of the
"primary" (or first) group.

It's only this "survivor" group, and it's percentage of attrition that
would bear meaningful statistics. From those that are presently around,
I think a good percentage are presently stock or near stock, simply from
restorers' interests being in that direction. The existing modified cars
are plentiful, but the question then becomes, how many are still around,
compared to the total number that were modified from the "survivors"
group? THAT is the statistical question that would be most meaningful to
answer, but it is one that is probably impossible to document, let alone
answer.

-Mark

Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
> In a message dated 4/30/2007 8:25:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> corvairduval at cox.net writes:
> 
> It is  the simple fact that once an original Corvair is modified, it will
> always  be modified, or junked.
> 
> So, to purists, original cars are nice  but  modifieds have begun the
> slippery slope to the graveyard, never  to return to stock status.
> 
> More un-modified Corvairs have been junked since 1959, than modified ones!
> So if you want a Corvair to survive, modifying it is the way to go. (I love
> statistics!) Of course, people have voted that way for years. If you want to
> preserve a Corvair in a cocoon, keep it stock, otherwise, make it your own!
> -Seth
>