Has anyone noticed?

[berettabone]

Cars hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................................. ...........I had a 63 Impala with a 327..........Holley 750 dual, Eldelbrock high rise, Isky race cam, light lifters, Hedman headers with cherry bombs, rock crusher trans, and a 4 11 rear ..........It scared the s#!t out of me since I was only 16. I used to take it to the local drag strip and pay $8 for 3 trips down the track. It wasn't lightning, but it turned 11's. I could pull the front wheels.

[Bills1873]

Can anyone beat having a 1962 Corvair monza as a first car? It was 2 door, I was mobile, life was good! Put 60000 miles on that beast. Rust killed it.

[Bawanna]

I don't recall what year mine was but I had a Corvair Monza for a few years. Kind of silver colored. Drove the heck out of it. Weird car, weird to work on but it was wheels. I don't think I have any pictures of that one, long ago. I'm sure we had cameras back then................

[Hawkeye]

Corvairs

Ah, yes, Corvairs. Another one of my junker work cars. A 1963 van with an air-cooled engine and no gas heater while living in the upper Midwest. I bought it cheap (but not cheap enough). It had a bad second gear synchronizer gear. You had to hold the shifter while in second or it would jump out. I had lined up another transmission to swap out from a 1964. Supposedly the same. Dropped the engine and swapped transmissions. Couldn't get it in gear. Told the Chevy dealer what had happened and had it towed there. There was one internal part difference between the two years. After removing the engine again, they changed the one part and I was in business. They said if I hadn't explained the swap they never would have figured it out.

I drove home and parked. As I was walking to the house I looked back to see fire coming from the engine. Then I heard the starter engage, it started heading straight for the landlord's house in front running on the shorted starter. I had parked and left it in low gear with the parking brake off. I dove in the driver's door and put the parking brake on as my wife screamed at me to get away. The fire department showed up grabbed my garden hose and put the fire out. (Thought you weren't supposed to put water on a gasoline fire.) The neighbor kids excitedly told about it in school the next day. The teacher was married to a co-worker of mine. My fame spread quickly after that.

The gas line connection at the fuel pump had leaked and dripped onto the distributor below. Not terrific engineering. I stopped payment on the check to the dealer and legal wrangling ensued. I finally had a guy who specialized in Corvairs rewire it for me. Now back on the road, I drove it thru one winter. With no gas heater and having to continually tinker with the carbs so it would start I suffered thru a lot of sub-zero weather. But it was great in the snow.

The next spring I sold it to some kid. A week or two later I came home from work one evening to have my wife tell me the sheriff had just left. She said the van had been spotted as being involved in some drug deal. "The Law" checked the records and came up with my name. The paperwork for the ownership transfer had not been updated throughout the system yet.

Corvair the Gift that Keeps on Giving!

[O'Dell]

Yes it was - best Chevy ever made:

I prefer the 55 Bel Aire, preferably a red and white convertible