<VV> Carb numbering question

[William Hubbell]

Excellent!!

Bill

On Dec 28, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Mike Stillwell <yenko117 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Bill, I worked at Hot Air Enterprises in Rockville Maryland as well. I spoke at length (learned) with Master Seniors Concours Judge Mike Harrison, who I will always consider the most expert ever on ‘66 Corvairs. I’ve been in junkyards from New York (upstate and the Island) to Florida, to Colorado (Mom has lived out there since mid 80’s). For a while I was saving data from EBay listings, but it became clear that it was all the same. 
My research has not been limited to a single place or even time, just the focus.

Mike
YS-117

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> On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:42 AM, William Hubbell <whubbell at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> I hear what you are saying, and you are probably correct, but I’d like to add that, as useful as it is to research stock from collections in salvage yards, we have to be careful in drawing conclusions from that alone, especially if that research came from a single yard. Even the largest yards (such as the Corvair Ranch) may not be representing the full picture.  For instance, since the Ranch is located in Pennsylvania, most of the cars there would be East Coast cars, likely produced at Willow Run, and therefore not particularly representative of cars produced at other plants. 
> 
> Bill
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> On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Mike Stillwell via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
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> I have studied and owned some very early ‘66 Corvairs (#15 & #44) for over 30 years. There are always a lot of people that have a modified car who want to believe it was due to parts carried over from the past year. I have seen very very little evidence of this occurring. In the 2 early cars I owned, the 015 car 2 minor parts (thin sun visors and the “pin stripe” on the Corsa dash) and the 044 car had thin visors. Every other part on both cars was a 1966 year. I used to spend Saturdays at the Corvair Ranch examining each ‘66 in the field. I feel very confident saying your customer’s carbs have been swapped.
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> Mike 
> YS-117
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>> On Dec 28, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Grant Young via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
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>> I have a customer in Poland who has a 1966 Corsa 140. He thinks is it original. The carbs on the engine are the 1965/early 1966 style without the secondary lockout system, and have an ID tag of 7025226. The 4th digit in the code usually identified the year between 1963 and 1966 (1967 was tagged the same as 66 and 68/9 are 7028xxx), so I am checking to see if there is a numbers wizard on our site that knows if GM carried the carbs over to 1966 with the same tags until they switched to the later design secondary carbs with the 7026xxx designation? Pictures have been sent to confirm that the carbs are the early design with the solid activating rods. An inquiring mind would like to know.
>> Thanks,
>> Grant
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