Tag: restoration
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Corvair Horn Buttons
A subscriber sent this chart made by Stock Group Corvair member Bill Hubbell showing the different Corvair horn buttons made throughout production. A very helpful chart if you are restoring an interior or just curious to see what the various buttons looked like over the production years. If you sit on the stock branch of…
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Tarps off! … or on
I don’t know how many of you are baseball fans, but there’s a new “tarps off” craze sweeping MLB this year where fans remove their shirts and wave them over their heads to show their team support and as a rally cry. In our world, we are rallying one of our junior members, Brodie, as…
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Tech Tip~ Electric Fuel Pump Conversion
Fuel. Gas. Petrol. It seems to be a hot topic of conversation lately! Within our little community, it has been a topic of conversation for a long time. What type of gas should I run? What type of fuel additives should I use? Why does my engine bay smell like gas? Where can I get…
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Miss P. (aka my 65) goes under the knife continued…
The body work continues but at a slower pace. My brother is doing the skilled bodywork, hammering and filling and I’m doing the grunt work, as in sanding, sanding and sanding. My wife calls him “Bondo Don”. “Bondo” has been traveling a lot lately so I’m keeping busy doing stuff like straightening out chrome and…
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Why Corvairs (or) Why Me?!
Hunting around for an interesting tech article, we accidentally stumbled across this very entertaining article from the January 1986 CORSA Communique. We got a good laugh and thought you might too. The original authors dollars are 1986 (40 years ago now!) so keep that in mind when reading. Also of note, ALL back issues of…
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6-Day Wonder: Sterling’s Stealth ’64 Corvair Full Respray
By Gabe Lopez, Owner of Sterling Restorations It’s not often in the restoration business that you encounter a 60-year-old classic car that’s, well, almost perfect. For those of us who make a living sanding, welding, and fixing decades of rust and poor repairs, finding a truly solid foundation is the equivalent of striking gold. That’s…
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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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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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Bringing a ’65 Corvair Corsa Back to Life: A Body and Paint Restoration Journey. Part 4 of 4
After a second priming stage, we painted the smaller areas. The trunk was refinished in the original grey with white specks, and the underside and engine bay received a coat of satin black (60% gloss). Then came the payoff for countless hours of block sanding and prep: the final application of the Madeira Maroon. The…