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#21 Feb 13, 2007 at 9:18 am

: corsa; Total posts: 221; Send Message

Great story Tom!

A Porsche will get you through periods of no women better than a woman will get you through periods of no Porsches. - somebody really wise.

#22 Jun 9, 2007 at 12:18 am

: Les; Total posts: 6; Send Message

Hi im Leslie,
I've been around corvairs my whole life. I've always loved the car but when i was younger i hated the car shows, now that im older, well not to much older im only 19, i have a greater love for the car and everything it stands for. I've been to many corvair conventions and numerous local corvair shows. Some of you might know me already, Im Sarah Beltrami's daughter, and i've been sent on a mission to bring the corvair back to my generation. I currently don't have a Vair but as soon as i get enough money EDWARD COLE AWARD watch out!!

#23 Jun 11, 2007 at 5:04 pm

: del61c; Total posts: 9; Send Message

Hi, My Name is Dave Linn and I have a 1961 Monza 900 Club Coupe. This was my
Great Uncle Les car that he was really proud of it. Every time that I went to visit him, it was " Come on Dave let's go for a ride!" We would ride all over town in it.
Les was a retired GM Repairman and builder of things. He built a vw powered lawn
tractor with a corvair rearend and made a snow plow for it. Winter time he would plow all the driveways on his street. In his early years he worked at Highland Park at the Ford Model T plant. I belong to the Tangier Shrine In Omaha and bought a
1931 Ford ModelAA Mail Truck that was fixed up as a Circus Wagon. It did not run when I got it, so it was off to Les's garage to have him work on it. The corvair came out of the garage for 2 weeks while he repaired it. It has ran fine. It starts up
everytime. 5 years before Les died, Les gave me the tractor. He kept the tractor and used it as long as he could. Les had Smoked most of his life and it caught up with him. I visited Les several times in the hospital and talked to him the same night that he died. He was telling me what was wrong with the corvair and that he wanted me to drive it and show it. After the funeral my cousin got the corvair and I got the tractor. My cousin had helped Les get the parts together for the tractor and wanted the tractor. I wanted the corvair. He called me up and asked about trading. I let him think about it for a week and called him. We traded and I did what Les wanted me to do with it. That's why I named the car Les.
My Dad brought home a Corvair Lakeside home to drive. He locked the keys in the trunk. Called the dealer and that was the only set of keys. He removed the headlight and got the keys out. He did not buy the car.

#24 Jan 18, 2008 at 8:20 pm

: CorvairJim; Total posts: 119; Send Message

Hi! I'm Jim Ely, from Norristown, PA (suburban Philly), and I'm the new guy here, although I've been into Corvairs since 11/80. Since then, I've had 14 of the little buggers. I started with a '65 Monza coupe (110/4) that I bought for basic transportation. In less than a week, I was hooked for life! Funny...my ex didn't care for Corvairs; she's long gone and the 'Vairs are still around! My "Forever" wife, Rose, likes my current Corvair (a '66 Lemonwood Yellow Monza coupe, 140/4, highly worked!) almost as much as I do. We bought it on eBay about 5 years ago, from a dealer in Denver. We compared prices, and it turned out that it would be cheaper for the two of us to fly to Denver and drive it home than to have it transported. Besides, we both love a good road trip! Two minor problems: I didn't have a license at the time due to a prescription medicine I had to take for several years, and she didn't drive stick! Well, after a (too) quick lesson from my sister, we took off for Colorado. The daughter of the dealer met us at the airport with the car and the paperwork. Ten minutes later we were on the road. Rose let me drive the first leg in my new toy, but she told me to watch my speed! The car had no spare due to the K&N air filters taking up too much room, so we stopped for a can of Fix-A-Flat (more on that in a moment...). After lunch, Rose took over. Yep, the stick-shift lessons WERE too short. They concentrated on shifting, and not on starting out, so launches were iffy at best. Most of the rest of the trip went without a hitch, just mile after mile of the Super-Slab. We saw things we had never before seen, being from the East Coast; buffalo, tumbleweeds, cattle doing what cattle do

, that sort of thing. We spent half a day in St. Louis sightseeing, and we went up the Arch. I have a photo of my car in the parking lot from the top. Another shot shows the my '66 parked next to a Route 66 sign. The trouble came on the Interstate in southern Ohio - a blowout. For future reference: a can of Fix-A-Flat will do you no good whatsoever if the tire has no sidewall left on one side! Thank God for cell phones and AAA! We made the call, the rollback was there in less than 30 minutes, and we had a new tire on the car and were back on the road in an hour! The next day, on the home stretch, we drove down U.S.30 from the PA Turnpike to Gettysburg, and the Corvair Ranch. Jeff set us up with a mounted spare, a working (but ugly!) jack, and a mag cap to replace the one that the car threw when the tire blew. One-Stop shopping for your Corvair, and right along the way! Since then, I've had the car to the Nationals in Carlisle and Lexington, and had a great time at both. (Previously, I'd been to the Parsippany, NJ, Washington, DC [8th of 24 1n the Ed Cole competition], and Williamsburg, VA Nationals).

CORVAIR: When you care enough to drive the vairy best!

#25 Jan 18, 2008 at 8:58 pm

: corsa; Total posts: 221; Send Message

Wow, that's a lot of Vairs you've owned! I've owned a Vair since 1987, but it has been my one and only one. I have a lot of catching up to do!

A Porsche will get you through periods of no women better than a woman will get you through periods of no Porsches. - somebody really wise.

#26 Jan 19, 2008 at 8:02 pm

: CorvairJim; Total posts: 119; Send Message

Not all of them have been drivers. A couple were bought as projects but turned out to be too far gone to make the repairs economically feasable at the time. If it were today, the '65 Corsa convertible would have been restored. Heres the list, in order of appearance:

1) '65 Monza coupe 110/4 Driver. Dark green/tan interior. Started my love affair with Corvairs. Blew up the engine in a stoplight drag (yeah, like you've never done it!) with a new Z-28. She blew when the limp, 150,000+ mile shifter went into 2nd when I wanted 4th, shifting from 3rd at over 6,000 RPM. The tranny held, the diff held, the pistons and con-rods said "Bye Bye". I had 10 lengths on the Z when she blew...
2) '66 Monza coupe. 110/PG Repainted Royal Blue (White originally) / red interior. Bought the car for $25 - front end wreck on the way home from the repaint! Parts car.

3) '66 Monza coupe. 110/PG Maroon/Tan Driver. Received in exchange for a custom striping job on a travel trailer.

4) '66 500 Sedan. 110/4 Driver. Interesting story: I answered an ad in the local "Penny Pincher" paper for a "Corvair 4-door, low miles, $1,000 or best offer" Well, the car had 50,002 miles when I went to look at it. It was originally Silver Blue, but it had a 20+ year old Maaco paint job in a darker blue. The seller's mother bought it new. I wanted a 4-speed 4-door, since I had three small kids. The car needed tires (dry rot, the last inspection expired four years before), but otherwise checked out OK. I looked it over, and told the guy " It's a 4-door and most guys want coupes and convertibles (true). It's a stick, and most buyers want an automatic (semi-true: I didn't say CORVAIR buyers, now did I?). It needs tires, and the paint is shot. I offered $200, and he laughed. Two months later, I get a phone call: I haven't sold the car, and I'll take $800 for it. I told him it was worth $200 to me. In the next few months, I got more calls, offering the car to me at $600, $500. and then $400. Two months go by without hearing from him. Then: "my wife says get rid of it. What'll you give me for it?" I say $200, and he says come and get it. When I finally blew up the enging, I had put another 60,000 miles on it!

5) '61 700 Lakewood. 98/PG Project. Paid $300, and sold it a month later, before I got started on it, for $750!

6) '67 500 Sedan. 95/PG Driver. Aqua repaint (Royal Plum originally), light blue interior. Car was just repainted when it was sideswiped by a kid in a stoled Cadillac. The owner, a Corvair guy since the 60's, said his heart went out of it, and he was getting out of Corvairs. I paid $200 for the car, all his Corvair specialty tools, Corsa Quarterlies going back to '72, and Communiques to date, and a large cache of spare parts. (Sometimes you bite the bear...)

7) '65 Monza sedan. 95/4/AC Driver/Project. Beige/Black. Drove for the summer, then took it off the road and started in on the body. Get this: Somebody STOLE the semi-stripped Corvair sedan out of my locked garage! (and sometimes the bear bites you.....)

'61 Greenbrier Deluxe. 110/4 (Truck motor from a '64) Driver. My wife had left me, and taken my kids to Cleveland, 440 miles from here. she finally let me come out to visit them, because we had already told my older daughter that she and I would be going to D.C. for the Corsa Convention, and an educational trip (she was 12 at the time). The ex said that I couldn't take the kids anywhere unless she went along (she was afraid that I'd "kidnap" them, like she did from me!), and she wouldn't go anywhere with me without at least one of her friends along. I had a Chevy Beretta as a daily car, and that only would seat 5. I showed up with the 'Brier, and she had no excuse. She could bring 4 friends if she wanted!

9) '64 Monza sedan. 110/PG Gold/Fawn (Gorgeous!) Original condition, 26,000 mile car to show at D.C. Bought from a good friend for $1 on the condition that he could buy it back at the end of the summer for the same $1. I polished the original paint and fully detailed the interior. We put in a correct rebuilt engine, and I rebuilt the brakes and put tires on it. Larry Claypool took one look at it in Concours classification and said "Modified"! The car had a dealer-installed (with documentation) trailer hitch on it! Didn't do so well. The only car shown in early factory stock unrestored was a Canadian-built '60 500 sedan belonging to Jim Garrison, who won the Ed Cole Award with it. I came in 8th in Ed Cole, with a 12-year-old rookie navigator in the Rally and Econo-Run.

10) '65 Corsa Convertible. Dark Green/Tan Project. Too far gone to save. Parted out.

11) '63 Monza sedan 98/PG White & Gold 2-tone, Fawn interior. Bought for $50 as a father/daughter project. Floors like swiss cheese, tranny wiped, engine with waek compression. Too much to fix for the money . Parted out.

12) '65 Monza sedan 140/PG White over Yellow 2-tone/ black interior. Driver. You know, I forget offhand what went wrong with this one, but I drove it for a couple of years, and then parked it. Got it cheap, sold it cheap. Shoulda kept that 140...

13) '60 700 sedan White over Turquoise 2-tone, Gray interior. Driver/Project. This is the one I finally got to work on with my daughter (by now 14). She put a lot of work into the interior of the car, stitching up new upholstery for the front seat and re-covaring the sun visors. The original paint polished up nicely. I gave her the car for her 16th birthday, even though she didn't have a license yet.Then she decided to move out to live with her mom, and couldn't take the car with her. I tried to keep after it, but with so many other things going on at the time (S*** from the ex...) and no garage anymore, the car went to hell - FAST! The car now lives at the Corvair Ranch. I visit it every time I go out there, and I sigh.

14) My current car, a '66 Monza coupe, 140/4 (worked!) Yellow/ Black interior. You can read all about this car in my introductory message above.

CORVAIR: When you care enough to drive the vairy best!

#27 Aug 1, 2008 at 7:41 pm

: pops64; Total posts: 33; Send Message

hey.. im steve from omaha, nebraska. i have a 1964 corvair convertible, its white with a white top and red interior, 110hp 4 speed manual trans. it belonged to my dad (hence the pops 64) until he gave it to me shortly before he passed away in november of 07. i dont know much about these cars, but im ready to learn! i havent even driven it yet!! CANT WAIT! ive heard theyre fun to drive. its in the shop right-T- N- M automotive- getting rewired(the plug in the engine compartment was melted, the wires were charred almost to the dash), new suspension, new brakes, generater to alternater swap, oil leak fixed, tranny rebuilt.$$$$$

but atleast pops old corvair will be runnin right when its done. away thats the story of pops 64.

good to meet all of ya!

that leak in your radiator is just weakness leaving your car.

#28 Dec 19, 2008 at 9:37 pm

: Les; Total posts: 6; Send Message

My name is Leslie and I don't own one yet but i've been around Corvairs just about my whole Life. I just have found the Perfect one that screams out LESLIE BUY ME!! I think im still holding out for the Amble Wagon (seeing as how im an emt) its seem like the perfect one for me! But I haven't seen it since the Chicago Convention. My mom currently the CORSA secretary has a 1969 Convertible "Benji" and its #133 and anyone that knows anything about 69's knows they were numbered. My step dad currently has a 65 with a V-8 in it that he bought from Bill Bruce.

I've always loved corvair, just everything about them is great to me. but my favorite thing about the corvair has to be auto crossing and I'm a member of the SECC. Youngest to be exact. I really hope that one day i can find the amble wagon and restore it it its former glory days, that or the one that screams Buy me Leslie..

#29 Apr 23, 2009 at 9:43 pm

: schwas; Total posts: 1; Send Message

Hopefully I am using this correctly...first posing and all.

Anyway, been a Corvair nut since 1963 when the folks traded in the '59 Bel-Air on a red '62 Monza coupe w/automatic, red vinyl interior. Brother bought a '61 shortly thereafter. When he graduated from college in 1968 I got his car. That's the "orange" '61 in my website garage. After it was hit by a Mercury wagon I got the '65, the other car in the garage. That was March 1, 1970. It became an actual garage car about 1975 and hasn't seen a winter day since. A couple of engine rebuilds/upgrades and paint jobs later is where it's at today. In fact, today...this evening...I installed a '66 quick steering box and column. The Corsa Enterprises front spoiler will go on tomorrow night or Saturday morning. It'll be in the 80's in central Ohio the next few days so the top will be coming down for the duration!!!

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