<VV> When is a Corvair Wagon not Stock?

[Tony Underwood]

At 12:04 PM 11/28/2009, airvair at earthlink.net wrote:
>Great idea, Pete. Hope you are sucessful. Would love to see the finished
>product. COOL!
>
>After that, all you will have to do is resurect Pinky. :o)





...maybe it's time to place an all-out search and rescue mission for 
Pinky's transaxle, which is about the only part off-hand that 
wouldn't be fairly easy to replicate.    I'd take a step forward and 
speculate that it hasn't been scrapped or discarded.


I'd imagine that if it did end up in another car its transmission 
would have suffered a failure by now (after all, it would be almost a 
half-century old) and with no readily available repair parts, it may 
well be sitting in the back corner of some garage, greasy and dusty 
and forgotten.    Or, someone knows exactly what it is and is sitting 
on it.


Or, some enterprising soul could hop down to his machine shop with a 
GM Turbo-350 and mortify it to work with a 'Vair PG differential.




Sheet metal would involve engine bay inner pieces, as well as the 
trunk floor and forward firewall area, which although daunting could 
be grafted into a '62-'63 ragtop body.    All it would take is some 
ambition and time and a little money...  actually less money than 
ambition since the only way this would happen would be as a labor of love.


tony..