<VV> Rust

Thu Jun 4 15:50:17 EDT 2020

I have owned my 1965 course a convertible since 1979.  While stationed in Germany in the early 80s I discovered a leak on the passenger side under the windshield.  Needless to say the windshield shattered as I took it out.  There was not a hole on the passenger side in the channel under the windshield just an indentation from the stamping machine so naturally water collected their and rusted through.  With some assistance from German friends, I repaired the rusted out section.  Now the challenge was a windshield.  The only one I could locate in all of Europe was in Sweden.  The parts house and all that would ship it.  They wanted me to drive the Sweden to pick it up.  I was just about to do that when I had a great idea.  I would order it from Clark's Corvair and have it sent to me through the Army post office system.  Well that didn't work either because Clark's wouldn't package it to meet the standards the army post office wanted for something that size.  The trip to Sweden was looking like it was on until another great idea hit.  I knew that in a month I would be making a trip back to Cape Canaveral Florida with some of my guys to fire our Pershing missiles out into the Atlantic Ocean.  The missile launchers-- be mamas-- would be flown over by the U.S. Air Force.  I realized that once we shot the missiles I'd have these big empty missile launchers.  So I contacted a friend who worked for the missile contractor in Orlando Florida and asked him it was okay if I had a windshield shipped from Clark's to him.  He said it was absolutely no problem.  So I ordered the windshield from Clark's had it shipped to my buddy George who I knew would be at the missile firings.  He brought the windshield with them out to Cape Canaveral.  After the missiles splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean we strapped the windshield to one of the missile launchers loaded it on a Air Force plane and away it went to Germany.  As soon as I got home I retrieved the windshield and installed.  It is still there today.  Now all you guys who were thinking that I abuse the system well maybe I did.  But that windshield didn't weigh a fraction of what the gigantic vessels that.  All my soldiers got a big kick out of it and gathered to watch me install the windshield.  I got it in just in time to take the Corvair Monte Carlo for the Formula One race.

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From: Charles Sadek via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
To: "'Richard'" <rnojunkmail at aol.com>
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Rust
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:23:05 -0400

During the early 60's the first unibody cars were constructed by the big three. There were holes in the windshield channel corners on each side. Those were to drain thru the back of the A (door) pillar down to the rockers, behind the floor/passenger cockpit vents which got their air from these same voids. The rocker panels has holes in the rear with rubber flaps on the LM . Don't know about earlies. The water (and any debris) etc was intended to flow down and thru the rocker panels. Some LM cars have a rubber plug in rear of front wheel well that goes into the rocker panel forward end, for flushing water thru the rocker.
Those holes did not solve the debris problem nor the rust underneath the windshield and back glass channels.
At that time, automakers were learning about unibodies and didn't know what we know today.

There are ways to minimize the rust or at least reduce it. 

Chuck S

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Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:03 PM
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Subject: <VV> Rust

Where does the rainwater from underneath the windshield and back window go? Down through the rocker panels? So many Corvairs are stopped up with leaves and dirt that they're rust buckets.  Major design flaw.  I drilled holes underneath the rocker panels.

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