<VV> 4WD Twin Engine Rampside

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Back in the early '90's a friend had two Rampsides in Virginia Beach that he said I could have if I came and got them, so we loaded up the trailer with a spare powertrain and various spare parts and took off from Pensacola, Florida to bring them back. To make a long story short, we swapped out the powertrain in one (In the parking lot of a closed Petting Zoo) put the removed engine in the bed of the Rampside with the Bellhousing up against the back of the cab, put on some sorta good tires on it,  loaded the other (Ex Allen Bristow) Rampside on the trailer and headed back south.  Very early in the morning we stopped at a Waffle House somewhere in South Carolina to reload on Caffine. When we came out there were three slightly inebriated good old boys looking at the Rampside, They had never seen one and were asking all sorts of questions about it, one of them asked about the Spare engine in the bed and I told him that was for the front wheel drive, that the truck was a twin Engine four wheel drive pickup...... Somewhere in South Carolina the story is still going around about the Twin Engined, Four Wheel Drive Corvair Pickup...They knows it's true cuz they seen it with their own eyes !


                                   Ed Lindsay
                                   West Florida Corvair Club
----- Original Message -----
From: jvhroberts at aol.com
To: patiomatt at aol.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:00:55 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: <VV> Snow tires on front of a 2wd?


 4WD Rampside??? Wow, that would be neat! 

 

John Roberts