<VV> Re: V-8 Vair

[vairologist@juno.com]

Smitty says:  Good luck with your V-8
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> Message: 3
> From: "Ryan Counterman" <vairking@hotmail.com>
> To: virtualvairs@corvair.org
> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:31:22 -0500
> Subject: <VV> I am back to Virtual Vairs!
> 
> Hi Gang:  Some of you may remember me from a few years ago, I was 
> fairly 
> active on the list.  Then I started college.  I soon found myself 
> searching 
> for free time, and the email box was pileing up.  I had to make the 
> 
> unfortunate choice to unsubscribe to VV until I had more time to sit 
> down 
> and go through it all.  Well its been a few years, but I have 
> finally been 
> able to have a little free time, and my mailbox isnt getting much 
> traffic, 
> so I figured I would subscribe and get to know you guys once again.  
> A few 
> things have happend since I left, in June of 2003 I hit a dear with 
> my 
> decently restored '65 Monza Convert, nearly totalling the car.  I 
> have put 
> it in storage until I have the time to come up with a new front clip 
> and all 
> the other things that went out with it.  Twas a sad day indeed.  On 
> a 
> brighter note, in that same month, I went down to Warsaw, IN, and 
> picked up 
> my latest project, a '65 Corsa Coupe, with a 350 SBC and Kelmark 
> Conversion 
> kit!  As some of you may know, I had a lot of plans and dreams on 
> turning my 
> convert into a V8 beast, and I thought that the Corsa would have all 
> the 
> hardware needed.  Upon bringing the car home, and closly 
> inspecting/cleaning 
> it up, we found that the car was in excelent shape, considering it 
> had 
> probably been sitting in that barn for 25 years or so.  The motor 
> was shot, 
> probably overheated, and the interior was junk.  But the floorboards 
> were 
> like new, and there was minimal rust.  I stored the car over the 
> summer, 
> because of lack of time and a place to work on it, but brought it to 
> my home 
> in Kalamazoo, MI this fall and have been working on it whenever 
> possible 
> since then.  A lot of progress has been made on it, as I am mainly 
> doing a 
> mechanical restoration right now, and will then do the body/interior 
> over 
> the summer/fall comming up.  Hopefully I will be able to start 
> driving it 
> and work all the bugs (or most of them) out of it by the end of 
> April.  I 
> have some online photo albums you guys can look at, I will try to 
> update it 
> as much as humanly possible.  Looking foward to talking to you all 
> again!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ryan Counterman
> VairKing@hotmail.com
> VP~WMCC
> '65 Corsa Coupe V8 Kelmark car
> '65 Monza Convert 110/PG crashed stocker