No heater - No nothing

[Sethracer at aol.com]

My first Corvair Van (62?)- semi-converted into a camper - plywood for a  
sleeping bag and curtained, crank open shutter windows (which never really  
cranked closed!) was a 3-speed with only one option - the right side front 
seat.  No radio, no heater - No nothing! I remember trying to coax that thing 
(No first  gear snychro) over the Santa Cruz hills to Laguna Seca, and 
sleeping in the back  with my wife, with the Pacific ocean breezes freezing our 
butts off. Light  sleeping bags, that was it. I don't think she ever forgave 
me for that  weekend in the van. The racing was great - camping? - not so 
much!
 
-Seth Emerson
 
 
In a message dated 5/8/2014 9:33:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
virtualvairs at corvair.org writes:

I have  seen an Econoline from the FC era that was a telephone van from 
somewhere  in the southwest and it had been ordered without heat / 
defrost -- my  friend got an outrageous deal on it because of that (here 
in Oregon). Some  one had also removed all four shocks -- talk about a 
strange ride -- sorta  like a "clown car".

I have not seen an FC without heat however --  however, I do not live in 
the American Southwest, where cars without  heaters were not uncommon in 
the early sixties.  Saw several when I  was working in the auto trades in 
Texas, but again, no Corvairs that  way.

Bill  Strickland
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