<VV> (grin) Reliability, etc. of a turbo; was: Corvair Classic

Shelrockbored at aol.com Shelrockbored at aol.com
Sun Sep 29 09:26:14 EDT 2013


That's great in heavy traffic.  One can train your Corvair to do  a Blues 
Brothers flip right over all those stopped cars.  
 
SVS
 
 
In a message dated 9/28/2013 5:38:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mvjacobi at comcast.net writes:

Well the  spinning turbo helps cause the Corvair to flip over!  I heard it
from  a guy at the gas station just last week!  GGG


On 9/27/13 11:00  AM, "Harry Yarnell (Verizon)"  <harryyarnell at verizon.net>
wrote:

> I've never heard such  bullshit!


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> Corvair  Classic


Corvair
>  Classic

http://www.motortrend.com/classic/features/13q1_affordable_classic_19
>  64_chevrolet_corvair_convertible/

The article said:

<Many  owners suggested I
> avoid buying a turbo. (The Corvair was one of the  first  mainstream 
production
> cars to offer a blower.) As one put  it, ³That thing will  run great 
once, and
> then you spend the  entire summer trying to get it to run  like that 
again.²
>  >

I've never owned a turbo.  What's the general consensus out  there?  Was the
> advice given the author of the article  correct?

~Bill Stanley

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