'66 Corvair "Marigold"

[76C10Stepside]

Thanks! Just put up a car canopy today (well, yesterday, now) to keep it dry. The rear window was leaking. Pulled the trim off and found the seal broken all the way around, just barely stuck on. Now I'll have a place to work on it and some elbow room.
Good news is the window channel is NOT RUSTED OUT! With all the other rust all over this car, I thought for sure it would be bad. Tomorrow I'll do a temporary fix, and tape the window with Gorilla Tape (glorified duct tape) to hold the glass in and keep the water out. Will probably tape the front cowel (below windshield) too. The gobs of bondo they "fixed" the rust with are cracked and letting in a little water.

Hey, anyone know if an aluminum rim can be straightened DIY style? Looks like they ran straight into a curb. Was thinking of trying some kind of clamps to slowly bend it back into round. They're two-piece Enkei with the star centers. Neat wheels. The rims are very thin and shiny, not thick like most mags. Gee, I need to take pics of these wheels...

[Palf70Step]

I too love the old 65-69 Corvairs. Yours is super sweet.

[76C10Stepside]

Originally Posted by Cameron 1137

Well, its happened. the white stuff has started to fly. it doesn't look good on a corvair

This is a sad day for sure

We haven't had snow here yet, but yesterday, a tropical storm took out my new car canopy. Spent the day getting it put back and lashed down.

Here's a pic from this past January. Sad sight. :-(

[richard2717]

Originally Posted by richard2717

wow, cool thread. Wish mom had finished hers. If I recall correctly it wasa 1964 spyder convertible with 4 one barrels 4 speed and very fast. Someone vandalized it while it was at our shop many years back and mom was so devistated she called the junk man to come get it ( but not before I got the hubcaps off of it. I thought they were so cool, they had what looked like a real black widow in the center of the caps ( if I remember correctly). I am not sure if I have any pictures of the car but I will have to pull the caps out and take a few pics to post.

Richard

Wow I forgot about this thread until I was cleaning up my subscriptions yesterday. I went and got the caps out and they still look pretty good. Need to be cleaned up though.

Richard

[Cameron 1137]

Time to resurrect this thread just to kill it once more.

I sold my corvair about a year ago now, I'm just a slacker and didn't post about it

the last picture.



I was definitely sad to see it go. it had issues and i just couldn't and didn't want to deal with them.

I did buy another daily though! ill start a thread soon on that.

[Palf70Step]

Looking forward to another 'vair thread!