The Jalopy Journal
The air cooled 2-4-6-10 cylinder modular engine project was an engineering concept study looking to reduce the cost to produce the production...
10 cylinder Corvair-based air-cooled modular engine in a stretched 62 Impala coupe built by GM Engineering staff in Watrren, MI. This was the out...
How about a Honda CB750K2 4-cyl motorcycle that I bought for $1400 (brand spankin' new) traded to one of my room mates back in college daze for...
The only buyer of these parts was the factory as the repairs were free to the customer. By 1975 any inventory left in dealer's parts department...
Here is/was my 1960 Laurentian sedan. This one had the 261 straight 6 in it and a cast iron powerglide. The 261 was also put in Chev and Maple...
A friend's 1964 Corvair coupe. Previous owner was a drag racer and had three engines for the car: #1 was a fresh rebuild back in the car and ready...
This 1960 Corvair's name is "Stubby" for obvious reasons. Was a 4-door now a 2-door. The builder's reason for chopping up a perfectly good...
How about a garage with a couple of Allards? One has a Caddy overhead V8 and the other has an early Chrysler hemi. Wow![ATTACH]
Mis-information re: cooling fans on Corvair engines. All 1960 thru 1963 Corvair engines came with a cooling fan made of metal/steel. There was...
My suggestion: If you want to learn more about the Corvair hobby make plans to drive up to Ann Arbor, Michigan the weekend of July 7-8-9th and...
How about the 1967 Chevrolet Astro 1 show car? After a while GM lost interest in it and it was scheduled to be pulled from a warehouse storage...
I have a Carter AFB 4758S carb. Date code is Feb 1969. It appears to be complete but has been sitting on a shelf for a long time. Throttle plates...
How about the prototype Corvair Monza coupe? Chevrolet built up two Corvair coupes to present at the 1960 New Car Shows in Detroit, Chicago and...
Us Corvair enthusiasts suffer fools often at cruise nights and/or car shows. The mere mention of that Ralph guy makes us bristle. I did get my...
Wally Booth was the driver of the Camaro, but it was a Booth-Arons entry. Dick Arons was the wrench and partner.
This is old news, but as I was visiting my lonely Maytag Repairman here in Royal Oak, MI the topic of other local business owners and the name...
Interesting fact: Back in the late 1977's when GM downsized the big car line (B-bodies) the straight 6 was the base Chevy engine. If you opted for...
I have built several "display" engines for local museums. All of my efforts to date have been with Corvair engines. I do have a couple of small...
How about a slightly rusty '64 Corvair Greenbrier van? It might a little effort to get her back on the road again[ATTACH] n...
Any leads on the location if still in Michigan I can help. And I thought I had the only Corvair collection in Farmington Hills (resident here in...
If you guys want to play the Nader card in this thread, I suggest that you watch a YouTube video that was produced by Hagerty Insurance - Larry...
I started working for GM's Buick Division in August of 1970. As I made the rounds at Buick City in Flint one of my stops was the Engineering...
1968. I found a pristine 5-year old Corvair 4-door sedan sitting in a garage in Fishkill, New York. It was really cool with front bucket seats! I...
Corvette in a garage story: A friend in our local Corvair club had a 1964 Stingray coupe (with factory A/C!) parked in an attached garage at his...
Bought this one back in 1977 for $500. Purchased from the original owner from the west side of Chicago. It had about 30k miles on it. Saved it...
How about a CoolVair that brought his house along with him? This is a 1964 Corvair 95 Rampside pickup truck with a camper attached. The truck is...
This is my current project. It is a very special 1960 Corvair coupe. The very first Corvairs produced were all 4-door sedans. It wasn't until...
'62 Corvair sedan in front of a barn on the Greenfield Village property in Dearborn, MI. The car came from Winstead, CT (Ralph Nader's...
[ATTACH] Went to check this one out today. It is a 1949 Plymouth sedan. Hauled to Michigan from Montana (still has 1983 plates on it). When it...
A friend in our local club was at a garage sale and noticed a car lurking in the pole barn at the end of the lot. It wasn't supposed to be part of...
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