I never noticed this before. At what first appears as chrome plated expanded sheet metal for the rear cooling vent is actually full of miniature Chevrolet Bowties.
Normally I wouldn't pull a pic from craigslist to post but this is the exception to the rule. I think that the chrome rally wheels and center caps, along with the strobe stripes, work really well on the Corvair. I almost checked on this one but with so few being listed for sale it's difficult to pin down a fair or reasonable price.
I don't think indoor shots are going to do this justice, but once it's outside in the sunlight, oh my, I think it's going to POP!!!...........Good job, John.
I plan on building a copy when I retire in two years. Hugger orange pops on this body style. Sure makes me smile.
Back when I was a kid in the mid 70's , I was about 13 or 14 at the time my buddy calls and tells me that he found a car to buy and it was somewhere around $25 so he bought it ,it was a Corvair . We got it to his Grandmas place and patched the holes in the floors , messed with the fuel system , got an old battery and got it running and then painted it pink with a brush and called it the pink panther . Above his Gram's house was an old strip cut that the mine had left so we took the car up and drove that poor car up the hills , down the hills into trees through the mud and snow till it wouldn't push any more , but we never did kill that poor car because it just kept on running . Seeing these cars made me think of that and put a smile on my face .
I’d like another one someday. Bought this one for my wife, and she loved the crap out of until the cheap hardware store bolts the previous owner used on the rear motor mount snapped while she was driving it. There’s something about the engine trying to fall out of the car that will make you not feel safe anymore.
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