I have a fiberglass body just like this one that I could be talked out of.

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Well that's something different. I always imagined the engine in the front like a regular Funny Car. Regular Funny Car sounds like a contradiction of terms.

Jim Brandberg
Isanti, MN
CorvairRepair.com

Ok Phil
Talk to me

Jeff ballard
Camarillo ca
How many I have?
Depends how’s asking

That would go great with that Hilborn / big bore venolia engine I got from you Phil. Just need someone with the time/money/expertise to build it!

JimBrandberg Wrote:
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> Well that's something different. I always imagined the engine in the front like a regular Funny Car. Regular Funny Car sounds like a contradiction of terms.

There actually was a rear engine Funny Car campaigned by Dunn & Reath. It was competitive and won the NHRA World Finals at Ontario back in the late 70's. I was there to see it happen - man, it makes me feel old to say that.

Correction to the above. It was the NHRA Supernationals (1972), not the World Finals. Like I said, I'm getting old.

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> There actually was a rear engine Funny Car campaigned by Dunn & Reath.

I think this one has been mentioned here before. Backmotor Mike.
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For more inspiration...


Corvair drag cars
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Corvair drag video
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SBC All-motor drag Corvair
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Dave W. / Gilbert Arizona
65 Corsa 140/4 Butternut Yellow
66 Corsa 140/4 Stinger Tribute
66 Corsa 140/4 w/factory A/C Aztec Bronze
65 Monza Convertible 110/4 Hunter Green
65 Monza 4DR 140/PG w/factory A/C Ermine White
65 Monza 4DR EJ20T/5 Light Mettalic Blue

Well I'm not a FURD guy, but this should make it fly


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J.O.

65 Corsa Turbo Vert
79 Honda XL 500S
69 Honda CL 160 D
2010 BMW F 650 GS
2003 Bounder 36D
2023 KIA K5 GT/GT1 turbo-AKA ZIPPY II (wife,s car)
69 Newport Holiday Sailboat
Baja 150 dune buggy cart
Coleman HS 500 UTV
2016 KIA Sorento SXL Turbo

Bethlehem,Pa

This is one time that I am glad to be as old as I am because if I were a few decades younger, I could be genuinely interested in such a project.

1962 95 F.C. Van
1964 Greenbrier Deluxe
1965 Monza Coupe
1965 Monza Convertible
Westminster, Maryland

MID ENG enthusiast &
prior Kelmark owner.

wittsend wrote:
"There actually was a rear engine Funny Car campaigned by Dunn & Reath."

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Well, mid-engine anyway.
Sort of like the John Player Special of Australian road racing fame, in my view the coolest non-Corvair Corvair ever.

Jim Brandberg
Isanti, MN
CorvairRepair.com

JimBrandberg Wrote:
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> wittsend wrote:
> "There actually was a rear engine Funny Car campaigned by Dunn & Reath."
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> Well, mid-engine anyway.
> Sort of like the John Player Special of Australian road racing fame, in my view the coolest non-Corvair Corvair ever.


Definitely agree the John Player Special was truly special!
41 out of 49.

My funny car body is spoken for.

Phil Dally Wrote:
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> I have a fiberglass body just like this one that I could be talked out of.
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> [youtu.be]

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WA. state, 1 mile south of the Canadian border, I am not at the end of the world, but you can see it from here.

I'll just pipe in to say I very much love reading about the John Player Special (guess why) and I consider it a true Corvair because, the engine was placed where it was based upon regulations which determined how far the engine could be moved from the original position.

Hence, while not a true "rear-engine car" per-se, the engine in the John Player Special was further back than other Australian racers, because the rules allowed for the fact that there was a rear-engine inside the car before modification. Other cars had to have their engines closer to the front because they were modified from front-engine vehicles.

John Player played by those rules, and waxed everybody's tail, until they changed the rules to stop him from winning so darn much.

Eric C. Player
Fargo, North Dakota
MEMBER: CORSA National, Central Coast CORSA, South Coast CORSA, Vintage CORSA, Sfba CORSA, and Great Plains Corvair Club.
THEN: 1965 Monza 110, Canary Yellow - 1965 Corsa 180 Turbo, Red - 1966 Monza 110, Purple - 1967 Monza 140, Red - 1966 500 110, Black; nicknamed "Shadow" - 1965 Monza 110, Camaro Yellow; nicknamed "Silver"
NOW: 1966 Corsa 180 Turbo, Blue; nicknamed "Bluvair"
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"He cautioned me not to take notes. It would not have helped if I had, as he would start a paragraph with, 'It is therefore obvious. . .'
and go on from there to matters which may have been obvious to him and God but to no one else."
-- Robert A. Heinlein, character of Daniel B. Davis, 'The Door Into Summer.'

My favorite corvair funny car




65 Monza 110 pg
65 Monza 110 pg convertible Danube Blue sold
67 500 sport sedan 110 pg
Crown kit waiting for the right car
LEHIGH VALLEY CORVAIR CLUB

No not mine. It sat down the street from me when I was a kid,then disappeared for years and reappeared in a restored shop




65 Monza 110 pg
65 Monza 110 pg convertible Danube Blue sold
67 500 sport sedan 110 pg
Crown kit waiting for the right car
LEHIGH VALLEY CORVAIR CLUB