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corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser!

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i really can't find the words to describe this awesome car!this guy to a 4 wheel independent rear engined car and threw in a pair of solid axles turned it into a fire breathing front engined mean machine! and its so beautiful looking! oh man if i had the monies i'd be all over that!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...rucks

 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (Mr.Variety)

now thats a blower..........
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (VR6GTI72)

Quote, originally posted by VR6GTI72 »
Not a fan of a corvair as a highboy gasser.
I like them more of a road race look.

I was just salivating over a Corvair I found for $2900, in "pretty good" running condition. This is pretty much where I would want to go with it (1965 Corsa 140 coupe).
Does anyone know much about these cars? Is this a project worth considering? Or are parts going to be near impossible to find? (aircooled, horizontally opposed GM engines?!?)
In other words, "why SHOULDN'T I do it?"
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (VR6GTI72)

Quote, originally posted by VR6GTI72 »
Not a fan of a corvair as a highboy gasser.
I like them more of a road race look.

This needed to be quoted again.
The gasser looked better than it did in my minds eye before I clicked, but it's still wrong. I don't understand the desire to put a radiator into a car that never had one. It would be much simpler to put an air cooled engine into a car that was once water cooled than would be the reverse.
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (PsyberVW)

Quote, originally posted by PsyberVW »
In other words, "why SHOULDN'T I do it?"

The only reason I would say 'don't do it' is if you lived closer to me so I could buy it out from under you.
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (valfaw)

so he took a car that was very unique and spent a lot of time and money to take our everything that made it unique so it is like every other gasser out there?

seems like a waste to me. $.02
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (Jettavr666)

Quote, originally posted by Jettavr666 »
honestly NO.
there are PLENTY of cars that are right as gassers. The Corvair is not one of them.

i kind of feel the same way. I love all the details, and the work looks good from my monitor, but the Corvair body just looks out of place to me. Maybe because i think the Corvair is one of GM's best looking cars and all the lines are messed up in the gasser style.
 
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Quote, originally posted by PsyberVW »


In other words, "why SHOULDN'T I do it?"

No reason not to. Most NOS parts are reasonable, the cars are cheap & plentiful, and there's several vendors (esp Clark's) who sell reproduction EVERYTHING. When I inherited mine, I thought it was going to suck finding parts, but the opposite has been true for the most part.... There's a relatively decent amount of aftermarket performance parts for such an oddball car, too. 140 heads are getting harder to find, but that's a moot point with that Corsa...
As far as 1965 goes, there's some '65 only trim pieces & such that are hard to find in original or NOS condition, but most are reproduced if you don't mind some $$$. One thing you might consider changing is the trans, for a '66-up Saginaw 4 speed.... contrary to the more conventional Chevys, they are considered superior to the earlier Muncie units; those too are getting harder to find. Also upgrading to a dual circuit master cylinder (standard on '66 or '67-up, can't think of which).
 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (VR6GTI72)

Quote, originally posted by VR6GTI72 »
Not a fan of a corvair as a highboy gasser.
I like them more of a road race look.

Actually you can have your cake & eat it too. Enter Crown Engineering, with their kit to put a small block Chevy V8 amidships as in this car with a 350 in it:

I had a '65 Corsa & QFT on that weak transmission. I believe many transmission AND suspension components were shared with the Corvette for '66 & later.
But I always wanted one of these babies



 
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Re: corvair steroids! this guy has them in the form of wicked gasser! (Mr.Variety)

Quote, originally posted by Mr.Variety »
i am .................. a corvair master!!!! i have an attic full of corvair parts!!!! anything you need to know i can tell you!

Then you already know the car in your OP is doing it wrong.
 
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