Tag: travel
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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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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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Do you know the story of the Corvairs crossing the Darien Gap?
Next time some blowhard at a car show tells you what a Corvair “can’t” do or how “dangerous” they are, you can let them know that not one, but TWO Corvairs survived a crossing of the Darien Gap. The third Corvair remains there to this day. First, a very brief primer on the Darien Gap…
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California License Plates and our Corvairs
A new Corvair owner recently reached out to us to ask about the steps to obtain a period correct plate for her 1962 Monza. When she purchased the car, it came with the modern “lipstick plate”. As we shared information with her on this, it dawned on us that you may have this same question.…