Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I never got that far with mine. I was still in H.S. with weekly $5 allowance. Mmmh, with the rate of inflation, I think that what my wife allows me might be the same amount. When I started dismantling the car to turn it into a dune buggy, I came home one day to find it gone. My dad had it towed to the junk yard. I still have the id plate from that car. Slobodan Dimitrov On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:12 AM, Richard Coutant wrote: > I put a full John Fitch Sprint suspension and steering kit on my > '63, which transformed the car completely, but as I remember it > also required larger rear tires and very careful attention to the > tire pressures, to make the thing handle. As modified it was a > real pleasure to drive. The short steering arms made it possible > to keep up with the oversteer without winding your elbows together, > but I do remember a few 360's on wet roads in my reckless college > days. I still have copies of some old correspondence with John > Fitch, who as far as I know is still alive and one of the last of the > Americans who raced in Europe in the '50s. > And I am completely in agreement with Marc about Nader. > Somewhere I must have a few photos of the Corvair, probably taken > with a Yashica rangefinder camera I had then. It (the Corvair, not > the camera) was totalled in a headon collision with a lost tourist > on a one-lane dirt road while I was racing a friend of mine in a > SAAB. Ah, the days of immortality! > > Richard > > >> From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Corvair >> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:21:44 -0700 (PDT) >> >> All it took to fix the problem was an EMPI camber compensator, a >> set of Koni shocks and Pirelli Cinturato tires. I know 'cause I >> did it. >> >> And GM finally did put the camber compensator on for the '64 >> model year. >> >> But without them the car could be dangerous. Not very many >> americans really know how to drive a car like this. >> >> Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote: >> At 05:21 PM 3/28/2007, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> > >> >On Mar 28, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Jim wrote: >> > >> >>> Love those first generation Corvairs! Air cooled, rear engine, >> but >> >>> large >> >>> enough for the yankee posterior. >> > >> >Ah yes - but "unsafe at any speed." >> > >> >I remember it well. >> >> That is BS and you know it better, probably, than >> do I. Rear-engined cars handle differently in >> tight turns than do front-engined cars. I damned >> near flipped out my 1960 VW in 1970 due to >> "trailing throttle overstreer". Take it to the >> bank, lad,. GM's only problem was in not advising >> its customers of the situation. It is not a >> problem: it is just a situation. That little >> cheap +_)(*&& jerk, Nader, tried to make a case >> against VW and Porsche which was bouced rapidly >> out of Court as these companies HAD advised their >> customers of "trailing throttle oversteer". >> >> Nader was a shit. He has always been a shit. He >> is a shit today. Contact me off-List if you >> really want to know how I feel abut this >> obnoxious bit of detergent chaff. He is, in >> short, a great example of, well, a shit. >> >> Marc >> >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels >> in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _________________________________________________________________ > Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit > MSN Presents today. http://music.msn.com/presents? > icid=ncmsnpresentstagline&ocid=T002MSN03A07001 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information