Tag: Bay Area
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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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7 Budgeting Rules For Your Project Corvair
Original article from Kyle Smith at Hagerty can be found here. We took Kyle’s fantastic article (you should subscribe!) and made it a little more “Corvaircentric” If you are like most car people, you tinker with carburetors or fine-tune fuel injection because cars are an interesting novelty in your life. There are likely fewer people…
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November 2025 Spyder Web Newsletter
Here is the November issue of the Spyder Web newsletter. For those of you that are new subscribers, this is the monthly summary of everything going on with the club. If you would like to contribute an article or photos for a future newsletter or blog post, please contact us at sfbacorsa.com. Enjoy!
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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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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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Tech Tip ~ Fan Belt Maintenance
With the Fan Belt Toss in the rearview mirror, what better tech topic to discuss than Fan Belt Maintenance so you don’t toss, or better, throw your belt. Courtesy of Mike Dawson and the Central PA Corvair Club FAN BELT MAINTENANCE The Corvair boasted a specially designed belt that G.M. used only after rejecting at…
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GM Expert: It wasn’t Ralph Nader who Killed the Corvair
Happy Friday everyone and apologies for the delay in today’s post. We think you’ll be happy with today’s delayed offering. SFBA co-founders Dave Newell and Tony Richards have put together this excellent video on Tony’s YouTube Channel which we hope you subscribe to if you haven’t yet. Corvair devotee and General Motors historian Dave Newell…
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Upcoming Weekend Events
While you may have missed out on the Welding Workshop at Sterling Restorations and the Old Car Picnic in San Francisco last weekend, that doesn’t mean you have to sit at home this weekend! Here are this weekends upcoming events courtesy of Tim Newey of NorCal Car Culture and Tito Garrett of Valley Corsa. If…
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Member Stories ~ San Francisco Old Car Picnic
By Josh Deitcher The Old Car Picnic this last weekend at Golden Gate Park did NOT disappoint. According to event organizers, there were over 650 vehicles that attended. Along with this impressive number, I can only suspect that there were thousands of spectators, hundreds of pounds of meat BBQ’ed and millions of stories and laughs…
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Upcoming Weekend Events
Here’s your weekend event update courtesy of Tim Newey of NorCal Car Shows and Tito Garrett of Valley Corsa. Did you leave your car out on Monday to let it get washed? Yes? Perfect! Now it’s ready for all the car shows this weekend! Comment below if you plan to go to any of these,…
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