[FC] Chevy orange valve covers

[henry kaczmarek]

I don't know about 61-, but 62-70 I took the Chevrolet open house tour, and 
watched Corvair motors being assembled.  I know the covers weren't orange at 
assembly time.  The paint area tour guide said only the water cooled engines 
were painted Chevy Orange.  I've seen some in black, and many more without 
paint at all.   I never bought a Vair when new, I was too young.  But that's 
my experience.

Hank

-----Original Message----- 
From: tkalp at cox.net
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 8:52 PM
To: corvanatics
Subject: [FC] Chevy orange valve covers


Recently  I purchased a '61 Bell Telephone van, the mullet of Corvair vans 
(windows on the passinger side, solid on the driver side).   The engine is a 
VB suffix, translated as '64 standard trans FC and it had Chevy orange Valve 
Covers, didn't think much about it until I checked another VB engine that I 
had . . . it also had the Chevy orange Valve Covers.  Is this just a strange 
coincidence or have some of the others of you ran across the painted covers 
. . . . anyone else have VB engines that are fairly unmolested?

T. Kalp
Wichita, KS
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