<VV> Silver Fox (From FastVair)

[levair at aol.com]

As I recall at Williansburg, VA, Seth and I traded fast laps all day 
long and I barely nipped him on the last run. Great competition!   I 
was shocked when I arrived and saw Seth standing next to the famous, 
many time National Champion Silver Fox--Champion driver and car!!!
    At that event I was running a Paxton supercharger at one of the rare 
times that the Velociraptor formula car was in AM configuration. Good 
thing, The Silver Fox had a Roots type blower and a Hewland transaxle.
    I had just repaced the often broken '65 trans with a later Saginaw. 
Both had late model rear suspensions and formula type front 
suspensions. .
  Mine weighed 1150#, don't know what the Silver Fox weighed--probably a 
lot less.
     Terry kalp and I will have our formula cars at the Corvair 
Performance workshop.
    Mine will have a 3 liter naturally aspirated 13/1 engine--legal for 
SCCA BM.

Warren








-----Original Message-----
From: Sethracer <Sethracer at aol.com>
To: levair <levair at aol.com>; ricebugg <ricebugg at mtco.com>; virtualvairs 
<virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Fri, Feb 17, 2012 12:22 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Silver Fox (From FastVair)

levair at aol.com writes:
I last   saw the Silver Fox in 1994 at the Williamsburg VA, convention
autocross,   Seth was driving it. Maybe he will respond.

Warren 
  The "Silver Fox" was originally built as a College project by Gary 
Bailey of Fresno, CA, in the early 70s. It had a modified 140, set 
mid-engined and a 65 4-speed transaxle, upside down, I believe, and a 
modified Spitfire front suspension, and a late Corvair rear suspension. 
It had a polished aluminum body, hence the name. Dan and Sandy Cole 
bought it and brought it to the San Francisco Bay Area. Dan and Sandy 
Autocrossed in SCCA in C/Mod and won eleven National Championships in 
the mid-80s. Dan had converted the car to a Hewland FT200 transaxle and 
full formula car rear suspension, stretched the wheelbase a bit and 
bolted on a blower. It was a real handful to drive! I drove it once 
with the Corvair transaxle, normally aspirated, and again later with 
the blower and the Hewland. Dan sold it to a fellow from Virginia, I 
believe, in the late 80s or early 90s. The car was at the Williamsburg 
Convention in 1994. The owner and I both drove it in Specialty class at 
the Autocross, Warren LeVeque nipped me by a few hundredths, as I 
recall, to win the Don Yenko award. The car has been out at a few 
events since then. The guys son has been co driving it- on the East 
coast. If your event was in 74-75, It could not have been this car. It 
was being run regularly in mid-California at that time. You can see a 
picture of the car in Richard Finch's book: "How to keep your Corvair 
alive".

Seth Emerson