Originally Posted by kerry

I had a Corvair Greenbriar van as a field car. I cut the top off it so it would attract girls as a convertible.
My brother in law had a 64 Corvair and the floor rotted out. He pulled all the seats, cut all remaining metal out of the interior floor, bolted some angle to the still solid rails at either side, put down a plywood floor and reinstalled the seats. Worked fine.
His wife was driving one of his Corvairs one day and drove over a rough railroad track outside a bar. It caused the rear motor mount to fail and the engine dropped down to the ground. A bunch of drunks came out of the bar and were befuddled by the fact that someone could lose their motor and then drive over it.