Tag: convertible
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Zaki Nadiri ~ Corvair Unlimited
Once you feel the bay breeze coming off of Candlestick Point and hear the intoxicating sounds of the jazz music wafting through the air, you know that you have arrived at Corvair Heaven. More aptly, Corvair Unlimited in San Francisco at 1275 Thomas Ave. Along the line of Corvair parts cars and customer cars either…
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Corvair Society of America ad from the 1970’s
Let’s hop into the wayback machine and enjoy these clips from the Corvair Society of America ad campaign from the late 70’s. Above is a clip that we converted when the club tried our hand at TikTok during Covid. We realized that we are more interested in driving than influencing and no-one had any interest…
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Just for fun – What do you listen to while working on or road tripping in your Corvair?
While at the work party in Don’s shop last weekend, Don had country music on in the background which really felt right working in his neck of the woods while the wild peacocks strutted along to Chris Stapleton on the gravel road. If you spend any time in Zaki’s shop, Corvair Unlimited, in San Francisco,…
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Did you know about the Corvair Super Spyder XP-785 Concept Car?
Citations from http://conceptcarz.com & Retro Cars on YouTube The GM Design Studio, under the direction of Bill Mitchell, would build four concept cars atop the Corvair platform, including this XP 785 Super Spyder. The Super Spyder was built on the 1962 Corvair convertible platform but with a wheelbase shortened by fifteen inches. It used the…
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Members Stories
By Herb Wimmer I was doing some organizing and shop office cleaning yesterday and ran across a bunch of photos of my cars.. Of the hundreds I have taken ofmy Monza over the past 40+ years .. Here are a few that stood out: 1) preparing for display at the Sacto Auto Museum…
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