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Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: ral1963 ()

Date: June 20, 2005 02:15AM

OK here is a fun little quiz that I thought I might throw out for the group.

Name as many production, factory one off's, proto-type's, and or small special runs of various Corvair powered or Corvair bodied vehicles that you can think of.

Name them by name but don't generalize groups like "dune buggy" or "racecar", actually name the make or specific model that you can think of.

Just to thorow out a carrot on a string, I came up with just short of 40 specific vehicles...lets see how many I missed that the group can think up....

Don't name any factory models like Corsa, Spyder, rampside, lakewood, remember these are factory Corvair based or Corvair Powered.

Rick Loving
CORSA
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Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts

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Just south of Chicago IL
Current Rides
63 Sprint Vert 140/4sp
66 Turbo Coupe 180/4sp
Past Rides
60 700 Sedan 80hp PG
63 Monza Vert 102hp 4 spd
63 Monza Coupe 140hp 4 spd
63 700 Sedan 80hp 3 spd
64 Monza Vert 110hp 4 spd
64 Monza Coupe 95hp 3 spd
64 Monza Sedan 110hp PG
65 500 Coupe 95hp 4 spd
65 Monza Coupe 110hp PG
65 Corsa Coupe 140hp 4 spd
68 Monza Vert 140hp 3 spd

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: ral1963 ()

Date: June 20, 2005 02:16AM

I'll start with a few to set the example...

1. Yenko Stinger
2. Monza GT Showcar
3. Ultravan
4. Manx Dine buggy

Rick Loving
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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: DavidBugea ()

Date: June 20, 2005 04:51AM

5. Sebring Spyder showcar (1961)
6. Super Spyder showcar (1962)
7. Experimental "Calvair" Stirling-engined vehicle
8. Fitch Sprint
9. Fitch Phoenix
10. 1961 and 1962 Pininfarina-bodied Corvairs

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Shaun ()

Date: June 20, 2005 06:13AM

Solar Cavalier
"Lost Cause"
Wayne 100 boat
Electrovair

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Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Steve O ()

Date: June 20, 2005 06:53AM

Corphibian

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Larry Forman ()

Date: June 20, 2005 07:06AM

Devin C

-- Larry

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Re: Manx DINE Buggy ???

Posted by: Anonymous User ()

Date: June 20, 2005 08:40AM

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

That's a Meyer Manx....nothing more...it's NOT a Dune Buggy!

2nd of the "multi purpose vehicles"... 1st one made of fiberglass

...1st was the Burro [all metal on VW]

A Manx with Corvair Chassis parts was marketed as the "ManxVair"

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Curtis ()

Date: June 20, 2005 08:45AM

US Army XM-571 Dynatrac!!!

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Gary Hoffman ()

Date: June 20, 2005 09:40AM

Deserter. (Wish I had one!)

Gary Hoffman

CorV8Racer

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Mark Pietz ()

Date: June 20, 2005 10:47AM

Not too far off the subject, but does anyone recall the either Popular Mechanic (or was it Mechanix Illustrated?) issue from late 1966 (IIRC) with the article with pics of someone who took the engine/transaxle assy from an EM and built an articulated frame for it for an off-road vehicle????? The "vehicle" pivoted in the center. Looked like it could handle boulders with little effort.

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: "UNSAFE" ()

Date: June 20, 2005 11:12AM

I don't know if they had a name,

but many parade floats of the 60s and 70s were powered by the Corvair " Unipack".

There are still some Vair powered airboats running around up here in Alaska,

and I think the Vair powered airplane has a name but I CRS !

Also Vair powered trikes.

The Monza ss and the Super Sprint, kelmark GT, Corv-8

"UNSAFE"
Kevin Willson
65 Monza
Juneau. Alaska

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Anonymous User ()

Date: June 20, 2005 11:14AM

Wish I knew the Names of the manufacturers..

1 Street sweepers

2 Small scale amusement part TRAINS! [ Poway Calif. has one.

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: Bigwave Dave ()

Date: June 20, 2005 11:33AM

The first group listed here definitely meets Ricks criteria
1 Eshelman eagle
2 Monza SS
3 Astro 1
4 Holden special Prototype pre1960 Corvair
5 first Blazer prototype
6 "Pinky" 1961 Convertible
7 Bertone "Testudo"
8 1960 Cameo sided Rampside
9 Glen Pray Cord 8/10
10 Corvair powered Pontiac Polaris prototype
11 1960 Super Monza
12 G. Barris's Beatnik Bandit

Quite a few kit cars of the era are known to use Corvair power beside the Devin.
Amante GT
Azteca
Fiberfab Avenger
Kelmark GT
Manta
Lazer 917

Quite a few V8 kits offered. (to name a few...)
Crown
Kelmark
Art Silva 215

Lastly a number of Private owner modified Corvairs.
early and late "El Caminos" Corvairs
Stretched and Shorten Corvairs
Stretched and Shorten FC's
Jag powered, diesel powered, etc
4X4 early, late and FC's
BST custom car
Tucker custom replica
Deathrace 2000 custom cars
Saturn 444 custom car

I know some of these sound unbelievable but I have pics for most of these to verify.

Bigwave

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: VairKing ()

Date: June 20, 2005 01:31PM

Dont forget the Cord 8/10s

And there was also the LM convert that had been converted into a Tucker (those who saw it at the 2001 convention know it was a site to see, maybe Rick or someone has a pic of it, I cant find one anywhere)

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1965 Monza Convert 4sp 110 HP (Click for Pics)
1965 Monza Sedan 110/PG
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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...LM tucker pic...

Posted by: ral1963 ()

Date: June 20, 2005 03:01PM

Here is the LM ala Tucker...2001 Corsa Convention

Rick Loving
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Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts

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Re: Name various vair bodied or vair powered vehicles...

Posted by: ral1963 ()

Date: June 20, 2005 03:28PM

Excellent list so far.....

I have about 10 more on my list.......There are still some common ones and the rest are slightly obscure...

List to date...

1960 Cameo sided Rampside
1960 Super Monza
1961 and 1962 Pininfarina-bodied Corvairs
Amante GT
Art Silva 215
Astro 1
Azteca
Bertone "Testudo"
Corphibian
Crown Corv-8
Corvair powered Pontiac Polaris prototype
Deserter GS
Devin C
Electrovair
Eshelman Gloden Eagle
Experimental "Calvair" Stirling-engined vehicle
Fiberfab Avenger
Fitch Phoenix
Fitch Sprint
G. Barris's Beatnik Bandit
Glen Pray Cord 8/10
Holden special Prototype pre1960 Corvair
Kelmark V8
Kelmark GT
Lazer 917
Lost Cause
Manta
Manx Dune buggy
Monza GT Showcar
Monza SS
1961 Pinky Convertible
Sebring Spyder showcar XP 737
Solar Cavalier
Super Sprint
Super Spyder showcar XP 785
Trailblazer (Blazer prototype)
Ultravan
Wayne 100 boat
XM-571 Dynatrac
Yenko Stinger

Rick Loving
CORSA
Performance Corvair Group
Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts