I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!

"Morgans" wrote in message
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What people do not widely know, is that he printed a retraction, saying
that the problems were fixed, '63 and later. It had to do with the fact
that the rear axles only had one U-joint, at the transaxle. After they
put in two per side, and made the wheels travel straight up and down, they
were fine.

Jim..........

Actually, the rear suspension change was made in 1965. See
http://www.corvair.com/user-cgi/page...corvairhistory

Rich S.
1965 Corvair Monza Convertible
140 hp 4-carb PG transmission
Black with whorehouse red velvet upholstery and wyare weels.

I had a 65 Monza convertible when GM finally canned the Corvair. I painted
a picture of Snoopy on his doghouse going down in flames shouting "Curse
you, Ralph Nader". Noticed a lot of people chuckling behind me at lights.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Rich S." wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message
...

What people do not widely know, is that he printed a retraction, saying
that the problems were fixed, '63 and later. It had to do with the fact
that the rear axles only had one U-joint, at the transaxle. After they
put in two per side, and made the wheels travel straight up and down,
they were fine.

Jim..........

Actually, the rear suspension change was made in 1965. See
http://www.corvair.com/user-cgi/page...corvairhistory

Rich S.
1965 Corvair Monza Convertible
140 hp 4-carb PG transmission
Black with whorehouse red velvet upholstery and wyare weels.

"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message
news
I had a 65 Monza convertible when GM finally canned the Corvair. I painted
a picture of Snoopy on his doghouse going down in flames shouting "Curse
you, Ralph Nader". Noticed a lot of people chuckling behind me at lights.


I had the '68 110 with the 2 speed hydromatic. When the air pressure in the
tires was tuned perfectly, you had 100% neutral steering. I could put it
into a high speed constant radius turn, and let go of the wheel. It was a
blast!

I always wanted a Monza Spider. I got to drive one, once. I was spoiled.
--
Jim in NC

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:29:40 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


I had the '68 110 with the 2 speed hydromatic.


Sheesh.
Seems I STILL gotta' 'teach' the teacher. g

The word is HYDRAMATIC, sweetheart.....
and it NEVER was installed in the love of your life Corvair.

I first saw a Hydr-A-matic Oldsmoblie on the street in 1948.
T'was an iron case 4 speed tranny with fluid coupling.
Surfing the net, it seems they were first available in 1946.
IIRC, much later similar designs left out 3rd gear...
making it a very sad and sick factory 3 speed performer.

More Minutia:
In the name of cost containment circa 1960?....
the rear hydraulic pump was eliminated, so one could no
longer push/pull start it with a dead battery or whatever.
This led to starting cars with dead batteries the way we do it today.
[Somewhere in time, the hand crank disappeared.]

FWIW.....
Jaguar, Rolls Royce and countless others have sported
various versions of GM hydramatic transmissions over the years....
BUT NOT CORVAIRS!!!!!


Barnyard - older than dirt - BOb

That would have been a Chevrolet POWERGLIDE in the Corvair.

The Powerglide had only Two speeds: Low and High (direct) and a Torque
converter. Performance suffered a bit - if you didn't wind it out in
low the engine would fall off the cam when it shifted to high - but it
was durable. It worked a lot better with a big V-8 than a little six.

While I was in college my 64 Corvair Monza sported a "Ralph Nader Racing
Team" window sign.

- John (not nearly as old as Bob) Ousterhout -


City Father wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:29:40 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:


I had the '68 110 with the 2 speed hydromatic.


Sheesh.
Seems I STILL gotta' 'teach' the teacher. g

The word is HYDRAMATIC, sweetheart.....
and it NEVER was installed in the love of your life Corvair.

I first saw a Hydr-A-matic Oldsmoblie on the street in 1948.
T'was an iron case 4 speed tranny with fluid coupling.
Surfing the net, it seems they were first available in 1946.
IIRC, much later similar designs left out 3rd gear...
making it a very sad and sick factory 3 speed performer.

More Minutia:
In the name of cost containment circa 1960?....
the rear hydraulic pump was eliminated, so one could no
longer push/pull start it with a dead battery or whatever.
This led to starting cars with dead batteries the way we do it today.
[Somewhere in time, the hand crank disappeared.]

FWIW.....
Jaguar, Rolls Royce and countless others have sported
various versions of GM hydramatic transmissions over the years....
BUT NOT CORVAIRS!!!!!


Barnyard - older than dirt - BOb

"John Ousterhout" wrote in
message news:SDaGf.752118$x96.326148@attbi_s72...
That would have been a Chevrolet POWERGLIDE in the Corvair.

The Powerglide had only Two speeds: Low and High (direct) and a Torque
converter. Performance suffered a bit - if you didn't wind it out in low
the engine would fall off the cam when it shifted to high - but it was
durable. It worked a lot better with a big V-8 than a little six.

While I was in college my 64 Corvair Monza sported a "Ralph Nader Racing
Team" window sign.

I love it!

In the Corvair, the "POWERGLIDE" -OK BOB?- didn't hurt performance all that
much. It was still making good HP when it shifted, and it took off, then.

It did seem to suffer when the engine ran out of rev's at 92 MPH, tho! g

That car was a blast. I still sometimes think about looking for another
one.
--
Jim in NC

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 19:25:37 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

In the Corvair, the "POWERGLIDE" -OK BOB?- didn't hurt performance all that
much. It was still making good HP when it shifted, and it took off, then.

Yeh, yeh.
You'd still be grasping for facts, if 'Oyster' hadn't bailed you out.

My life long friend had a Corvair with POWERSLIDE and it did OK.
It got us back and forth from the bars and beaches in our and its
heyday.

Powergilide was pretty much the mainstay thru the 50's for all
automatic Chevies and served well until the 3 speed Turbo Hydramatic
came along as a '60's option. In between was TURBOGLIDE.. a dismal
failure with the less than popular 348 c.i.d. Chevy V-8 circa 1958.

When the big block Fords came along in the 60's, I left GM....
and never went back until I bought that piece of sh*t Buick
from Steakbreath Stricker in western Kansass! I can't believe
that we are still on speaking terms after that fiasco. g

- Barnyard BOb -

"City Father" wrote

The word is HYDRAMATIC, sweetheart.....
and it NEVER was installed in the love of your life Corvair.

Well, it was a two speed - I remember that much!
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"City Father" wrote

The word is HYDRAMATIC, sweetheart.....
and it NEVER was installed in the love of your life Corvair.

Well, it was a two speed - I remember that much!

Yeh, GO and STOP.:-)
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe,
Rallye 100
EI-BFR

--
Jim in NC