I never noticed this before. At what first appears as chrome plated expanded sheet metal for the rear cooling vent is actually full of miniature Chevrolet Bowties.
Normally I wouldn't pull a pic from craigslist to post but this is the exception to the rule. I think that the chrome rally wheels and center caps, along with the strobe stripes, work really well on the Corvair. I almost checked on this one but with so few being listed for sale it's difficult to pin down a fair or reasonable price.
I don't think indoor shots are going to do this justice, but once it's outside in the sunlight, oh my, I think it's going to POP!!!...........Good job, John.
I plan on building a copy when I retire in two years. Hugger orange pops on this body style. Sure makes me smile.
Back when I was a kid in the mid 70's , I was about 13 or 14 at the time my buddy calls and tells me that he found a car to buy and it was somewhere around $25 so he bought it ,it was a Corvair . We got it to his Grandmas place and patched the holes in the floors , messed with the fuel system , got an old battery and got it running and then painted it pink with a brush and called it the pink panther . Above his Gram's house was an old strip cut that the mine had left so we took the car up and drove that poor car up the hills , down the hills into trees through the mud and snow till it wouldn't push any more , but we never did kill that poor car because it just kept on running . Seeing these cars made me think of that and put a smile on my face .
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