<VV> VirtualVairs Digest, Vol 191, Issue 21 Polish Corvair throttle linkage

[sgeast at interlog.com]

Grant, Mike, Bill

There's another consideration here as the car is in Poland, was it a
European build? The carbs and linkage were a final assembly item, so it
could be original, if the European assembly was done and they had not
exhausted the supply of '65/early66 MY 140 hp linkages just continuing to
consume the inventory. If it's a US built Corvair that was shipped over
latter then anything is possible with possible owner changes also possible.

Stan East

From: William Hubbell <whubbell at umich.edu>
To: Mike Stillwell <yenko117 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Grant Young <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Carb numbering question
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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

On Dec 28, 2020, at 10:34 AM, Mike Stillwell via VirtualVairs
<virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

?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.

Mike
YS-117

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> On Dec 28, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Grant Young via VirtualVairs
<virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
> 
> 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