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  • Corvair Cockpit Day RSVP

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    Corvair Cockpit Day at the Oakland Aviation Museum is fast approaching! Sunday, Sept 7th. The event will be from 10am to approximately 4pm. We want to see you and your Corvair at this free event! The museum will have us staging our cars under some of the aircraft on display on the outdoor field. This…

  • Tech Tip ~ Cylinder Head Deflashing

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    Engine cooling. It is topic that comes up frequently in conversations among Corvair people. There are many tips and tricks to get that Corvair to run just a few degrees cooler. Some are quite expensive and some require quite a bit of ingenuity. There is, however, one easy, cheap, and somewhat quick method to keep…

  • 1966 Corsa Convertible For Sale

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    1966 Corsa Convertible for Sale (originally Aztec Bronze with white top, now gray and a black top). I have taken this car about as far as I can go. I have been busy getting into other things so it’s time to move it along. It’s been a great car for me. I resurrected this Kansas…

  • SFBA notes on the website, daily emails and a future “Letters to the Editor”

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    I wanted to shift gears and provide a little background and update on what we are doing here and also to share some of the feedback that has been provided by members and subscribers. In the spring, when SFBA was up for renewal with our previous website host, we were blind sighted by a renewal…

  • Corvair by the numbers

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    Being enthusiasts, some might call us “nuts”, we often see more Corvairs in the wild than your run of the mill car enthusiast or non-enthusiast civilian. This will lead folks to say things like; “Corvairs are rare!”, “Didn’t the government ban those?”, “They really made them for ten years?!” etc etc. So, if you are…

  • Just for fun ~ The most expensive part

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    Ok, let’s have a little fun to kick off the week. Corvair parts. You’ve bought them. Likely, because you NEEDED them. Maybe you went to go buy a used part from a guy and ended up walking away with a box of “other parts” that they no longer wanted and threw in. Maybe there was…

  • Corvair – An Exciting Automobile

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    Excerpt from The Classic Corvair by Bob Helt Excitement was at a fever pitch that Friday, October 2, 1959 when the Corvair was first unveiled to the anxious American public. The waiting had finally ended. For nearly two long years we had heard about this new American wonder, the revolutionary Corvair. And here it was,…

  • Uh-Oh… The Bolt

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    By Pete Tachis A couple of weeks ago, I had new rims and tires installed on my Corvair. Eager to test the improved handling, I rolled out of the shop, hit second gear and bang, the clutch pedal goes to the floor.  Probably should have installed that clutch cable I bought last month.  Ben Franklin said, “Never leave that till tomorrow…

  • A Brief Story of Offenhauser

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    Offenhauser has a long history of manufacturing hand made high-quality custom auto parts and are a legendary name among Hot Rod and custom enthusiasts. Founded in Los Angeles in 1946, they continue to make parts from the same hand made molds developed by the company founder, Fred C. Offenhauser. While Offenhauser is famous for their…

  • 1965 Monza for sale

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    This one came to us from our friends in the San Diego club. A really nice looking Monza… Here’s some info on my 1965 Corvair Monza. – 110 hp engine and 4 speed trans both rebuilt, new clutch and shocks. – Body on restoration about 2010, log book available, I’ve owned since 2015, about 19,000…