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strelnik · #16 10-12-2009, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by kerry

Not one of a kind. A very famous Corvair engined RV--the Ultravan. There's an internet club I've run across. I used to drive Corvairs so I've always been tempted.

http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/uvmcc/

My friend Ken Nelson owns one and stashes it near Palo Alto. he goes out to the Burning man festival every year in it

SwampYankee · #17 10-12-2009, 09:14 AM

What a cool, funky camper!

t walgamuth · #18 10-12-2009, 11:05 AM

I showed this picture to the Lovely Mrs. and chuckled as to how it looked like the wienermobile and she said it looked cool to her.

Gotta love that gal!

SwampYankee · #19 10-12-2009, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I showed this picture to the Lovely Mrs. and chuckled as to how it looked like the wienermobile and she said it looked cool to her.

Gotta love that gal!

You're a lucky guy, Tom! Mine often goes along with what I'm saying, but I think she's just humoring me most of the time.

t walgamuth · #20 10-12-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

You're a lucky guy, Tom! Mine often goes along with what I'm saying, but I think she's just humoring me most of the time.

good point. Those subtilities are usually lost on me.

Jim B. · #21 10-12-2009, 03:02 PM

kerry · #22 10-12-2009, 04:45 PM

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.

raymr · #23 10-12-2009, 05:58 PM

I had a '64 110 Powerglide. I thought for a brief second about getting another Corvair but brushed that thought quickly aside. With the solid steering column, single circuit brakes, and leaky engine seals that spew oil and exhaust fumes inside the car, I'm just more concerned with my own safety now than I used to be. I still think its one of the best looking cars ever though; BMW later used some of the Corvair styling cues like the horizontal line that extends around the body, and the pointy forward slant on the front end.

t walgamuth · #24 10-12-2009, 07:12 PM

My 74 bmw used the later body style corvair styling cues for the front and back and it was one of the best looking bmws for a long time.....almost as good looking as a corvair!

I always liked the more balanced look of the four door.

kerry · #25 10-12-2009, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I always liked the more balanced look of the four door.

I had a 66 4 door. Abused that thing terribly but I loved driving it until I turned on the heat in the winter. I had some front end damage and I had a screw holding the hood shut. One day it loosened and the hood opened as I drove down the road. That was an adventure.

PaulC · #26 10-12-2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by raymr

I had a '64 110 Powerglide. I thought for a brief second about getting another Corvair but brushed that thought quickly aside. With the solid steering column, single circuit brakes, and leaky engine seals that spew oil and exhaust fumes inside the car, I'm just more concerned with my own safety now than I used to be. I still think its one of the best looking cars ever though; BMW later used some of the Corvair styling cues like the horizontal line that extends around the body, and the pointy forward slant on the front end.

Weren't the brakes and steering column addressed for 1967?

Jim B. · #27 10-12-2009, 10:05 PM

By the end, they had consolidated their feces pretty good.

I remember being in Glendale, CA. (not far from the Eagle Rock Chevy dealer, "Will Newman's Citizens Chevrolet") and along comes a brand new 1969 Corvair coupe, in pale lemon yellow.

It looked stunning, in a euro kind of way.

That damned Ralph Nader.

the tuck under wheels were fixed by '65.

That new '69 coupe was exotic and euro-looking, especially compared to my 1964 Chevelle 4 door sedan, that was "Almond Fawn" a kind of light metallic brown.

Corvairs got their name from an amalgram of CORVETTE and BELAIR = CORVAIR, referring to both of them together to make one "Cool" car...

Always loved to hear the buzz and thrash of those Corvairs going down the road.

TheDon · #28 10-12-2009, 10:41 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I showed this picture to the Lovely Mrs. and chuckled as to how it looked like the wienermobile and she said it looked cool to her.

Gotta love that gal!

You really need to carry a digital camera with you.

I actually saw the Weinermobile somewhere in Utah on my recent roadtrip.. I didn't have my camera out at the moment(it was going west, we were going east)... It was the funniest thing I have ever seen

Jim B. · #29 10-12-2009, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDon

You really need to carry a digital camera with you.

I actually saw the Weinermobile somewhere in Utah on my recent roadtrip.. I didn't have my camera out at the moment(it was going west, we were going east)... It was the funniest thing I have ever seen

There is actually a small fleet - six - of them.

I remember vaguely a TV jingle for Oscar Meyer weiners back in the late 1950s when they showed one going down the road complete with wide whitewall tires.

Here comes Little Oscar, in his Weinermobile; BEEP BEEP, Little Oscar, the world's finest chef !!!"

cmac2012 · #30 10-13-2009, 02:15 AM

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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.

HAH! I'd like to have seen that.

I don't know what I was thinking. I first started buying cars in '71. I could'a owned a corvair. DOH!