<VV> Saving Corvairs (was " 6 EM in Baltimore scheduled to crush" among other things

[Karl Haakonsen]

Thanks for the sarcasm, Bob. ;-)

Anyway, I was just thinking out loud. I know that there are more 
marginal Corvairs than there are people willing to save them. However, 
it seems that every time a group of Corvairs comes along that is about 
to be crushed, at the 11th hour someone chimes in about how they wish 
they knew about them sooner. And that's just on this list, which doesn't 
get to all in the Corvair world. The same is true in the Corvair Center 
Forum. I was just wondering whether some kind of unified way of 
publishing the list of Corvairs for imminent demise could be made easily 
accessible to the widest number of Corvair people... and if nobody wants 
them, well then, there's nothing we can do about that.

It's just a shame that if someone does want one or some of the death row 
Corvairs, or some parts from one of the cars that they don't know about 
them until it's too late. I consider it a reasonable goal to try to save 
as many viable Corvairs as possible if there are people who might want 
them (or at least parts from them) before they get crushed. Once they're 
crushed, we lose those Corvairs and their parts forever. To the cynics 
and naysayers here, if any of these cars and/or their parts have no 
value to anyone in the Corvair community, then so be it, but at least we 
gave them all a good shot.

I can float it by the board to see if anyone else has any interest in 
this, but it may just be that I'm only the voice of one idealist in the 
wilderness. But I'd like to try.

Karl Haakonsen
CORSA Board of Directors, Eastern Director, Boston
Bay State Corvairs
Stock Corvair Group Corvanatics

1966 Monza Convertible 110/PG project car


On 10/22/2013 9:57 AM, Vairtec Corporation wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 2:40 AM, Karl Haakonsen (cityhawk at pobox.com) wrote:
>>    it would be nice if we (the larger Corvair community) could have a system of alerting everyone about the existence of such a find before it's too late. Any ideas among VV how we might best do that?
> Maybe we could form a nationwide organization, and give it a nice
> user-friendly web site with a home page with prominently-featured news
> and announcements and an active online community.  Information like this
> could be posted there for all to see.
>
> In addition to placing news and updates on the web page we could allow
> persons to opt-in to receiving email updates.  Heck, we could even
> publish a periodic print magazine for features that are not time-sensitive.
>
> We could call it the "Corvair Society of America," or CORSA for short.
> Oh... wait... that name's already taken... by some group with an
> inscrutable web site, an inability to post fresh content, and a
> congenital resistance to change.
>
>
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