Category: Supplemental news
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Thank You Veterans
We wanted to take a moment to thank our SFBA members and Corvair friends who served to protect our country and wish them a Happy Veterans Day. As we like to share history around here, we want to switch gears and share a little history of Veteran’s Day for those of you who may not…
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Corvairs in the wild
To borrow from the famous line from Field of Dreams, “If you build it, he will come.”… When you drive your Corvair, they will come. From far distances…. to look at and talk about YOUR car! New member Scott Lyon took his 67 Monza out to Goodguys this past weekend. No sooner did he get…
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An El Corvino Story
New to Corvairs and never heard of the “El Corvino”? What is this air-cooled Ute and what is the story behind it? Much like the Corvair roadsters and “shorty’s”, the “El Corvino” was never a production car. In fact, it may have never been a GM concept car. It was, however, the brainchild of a…
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Updates From Yesterday’s SFBA Zoom Meeting
Thanks to everyone who was able to attend yesterday’s monthly SFBA club meeting. With 14 members in attendance, our unintentional experiment to see if sending the “Christy Link” had an effect in attendance proved true! Clark will share the minutes summary in next month’s Spyder Web, but in advance of that, we had a few…
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SFBA Zoom Meeting Tonight & Upcoming Weekend Events
Hi Everyone, Just a last minute reminder that our November 2025 Meeting will be this evening (Thursday) starting at 7:00 PM on Zoom. Last month we forgot to include the Christy Link (below) and heard from many people about it. I hadn’t realized how many people depended on this link. Sorry! We have a few topics…
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Member / Subscriber Poll
You ask, we listen. The club receives quite a bit of correspondence via email…and Facebook messenger, and instagram messenger… sometimes I’ll still even get phone calls and hand written letters! A topic that comes up often enough where I thought it would be worth taking a straw poll on is a having central area where…
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Happy Halloween!
Wishing our SFBA members, subscribers and Corvair friends a Vairy Spooktacular Halloween.
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Upcoming Weekend Events
Car show season around here is winding down… but isn’t out! There is also likely a “Trunk or Treat” in your town tomorrow for Halloween. We don’t have the time or resources to list all of those. Check with your local city council, school or church to see if there is one near you and…
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Dispatch from the Great Western Fan Belt Toss
From the scuttlebutt on text message chains and social media posts, this year’s GWFBT&SM (Great Western Fan Belt Toss & Swap Meet) has been one for the ages. Many SFBA members are attending the event this year in Palm Springs at its new location, the Double Tree Palm Springs Golf Resort. We are getting varied…
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CORSA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBERSHIP CHAIR DAVE WATSON
This is Dave Watson, your CORSA Membership Chair—many of you know me as Davemotohead. As your Membership Chair, my primary mission is to recruit new members and retain our current ones, while supporting the growth and success of the Corvair Society of America (CORSA). Today, I’m reaching out to the entire Corvair community to ask…
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