<VV> My Corvair Purchase History / was The Rising Price of Corvairs

[Matt Nall]

First was a rusty '61  pg  from a Sailor that had just driven it to San Diego in '70
Cut it up to make a 3 wheeler... 5 seats..tandem!   Sold in 3 weeks..  but was fun while I had it on the road..


  1974 a '65  Monza Cp  for $50  with cracked snout... driven 60k miles and traded for a Courier pickup with Buick 225 v6,
 in 1977, since I had just scored a super nice  65 Corsa  for approx.   negative  $450  in 1977, after a series of trades,
 and the PO  popping $1,000  and the Corsa to make the deal.


  Note:    The wife had her  $300 64 Monza vert  at this time...and we  had a Corvair Sand Buggy  as well..


  Wife left in late '82  and  I sold the 64 vert for $4,200!   unheard of at the time...to an impulse buyer...


Soon after   I let the 65 Corsa go  in the same circumstances...  guy offered $2800  and the '78  Honda 750 SS 
he rode into my gas station...  I rode the bike home to get the title!! ggg


 Picked up my 1966  Glaspar 16 ft runabout with Wayne 100 [ verticle Corvair engine as featured in Hot Rod Mag ]
for the princely sum of $400...in 1988..


Joined VV  in Nov. 98  and was soon challenged to  put up or shut up!


Picked up a salvaged 66 vert from Eric Starkey  for approx. $950..delivered...  and   8 weeks later was driving it.


and it made the trip to Tahoe and back with nary a failure!  99%  USED  parts... only the mech. fuelpump was NEW.


 Spring  2000  found my Crown v8  for $2200..drove it on the trailer.


Also picked up my Manx style car...a ClaimJumper body on a custom VW  style floorpan  for $300..drug it on the trailer.


$1960 later I  placed 2nd to Warren Le Veque at Flagstaff in the AX  and  then sold it for  $4500 to a ManxClub member..


2003  I saw a '69  # 5990 - 47k miles  that no one wanted.. $800  and it was mine...  I was in Reno, NV... car in Needles , Ca.


Vair buds  going that way hauled it to my painter who  painted it...and when I first saw it , looked factory!.


2006  I  helped a Vairbud out by buying his 66 Turbo cp, no one seemed to want..$1000  still have it.


2007  picked up a 64 cp  140 pg...  with NEW 140 pg engine.. $600  delivered!    It's for sale...**


Sold the 66 vert in  Fall  '08 for $3900  with 18k miles of enjoyment  /  never left me on the side of the road..


Sold the 69 on ebay  in the Spring of '08  for $5500.. ** nice car..but not "my kind of car"


Made the deal on a '67  Monza pg....  but will probably not see it until the snow melts up north.. $1500


 Hopefully It'll be my "road car"  for events within 400  miles or so..


 I've bought / sold another dozen Vairs... but never intended to keep them..







Matt Nall
Charleston, Oregon
http://mysite.verizon.net/nalllm