<VV> Corvair Reliablility Queston

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Overall reliability of the American (and Japanese) automobile has 
improved greatly since the sixties, when you went in for lube jobs every 
two to three thousnad miles and tune-ups every ten or twelve -- twenty 
thou on a set of tires was pretty good, so keep it in mind --

We took our 1961 95 van -- chasis had well over 100,000 miles of 
metropolitan delivery use and had been stripped for dune buggy parts, 
engine was brand new rebuilt (at home), new axle bearings, wrecking yard 
transaxle, with a 600 mile shakedown trip to southern Oregon from 
Portland -- next day we left for Dallas, TX (2100 miles - two days to 
get there) and stayed there all summer, driving back before school 
started -- two carb 140 gave no problems, nor did anything else.  Of 
course, we weren't expecting to have any problems, either -- sometimes 
you find what you are looking for ...

Drive with trepidation, and you find trepids as your passeengers.  My 
"new" car is twenty years old, and I don't worry -- generally I'm pretty 
happy with it -- otherwise, I have a 58, 59, 60, & working on a 63, and 
just got a 61 VW floorpan to turn back into a car.  If you worry about 
cupholders, drive a new car.

Bill  Strickland