<VV> Rust

Thu Jun 4 15:55:06 EDT 2020

I thank you for your service, and your ingenuity!

And of course for your good choice in vehicles!

Peter Marsh

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:52 PM Brian via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> 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 look
>  ing 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.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of
> Richard via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:03 PM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> 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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