<VV> A/C Corsas

[FrankCB at aol.com]

As far as I'm concerned, if the Corvair A/C blows  cold air reliably during 
hot weather, I don't give a rat's  posterior if the AC was installed by the 
factory, by the dealer, or by  little green men from outer space!!!!   
    Frank "factory stock is a good BEGINNING"  Burkhard
 
In a message dated 2/13/2007 2:06:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
nicolcs at aol.com writes:

Craig  opines:
Don't forget that GM sold dealer kits that installed factory air  parts too. 
Do those conversions have no value? Does a "rescued" A/C system  carfully 
installed have no value? While decoding body tags is very informative  and fun, I 
strongly object to the total dismissal of a car that doesn't have  the dammed 
"E" on the body tag.  It's still what it is; an A/C Corsa  convertible. Maybe 
it doesn't have 100% authenticity, but it still has very  high value and 
serves to preserve the marque.  In the muscle car scene  (think BB Camaros and the 
like) "Tribute" cars bring very high prices too  because buyers respect the 
difficulty of assembling all the right pieces in  the original way - the car 
DOES have high value even if it is a "made up"  car.  I'm also involved in the 
NCRS ('65 FI) and maintain a registry of  them. There's a huge (as in tidal) 
negative reaction to "numbers" and all the  associated fakery. Many, if not most 
of the "numbers matching" cars don't  really have the original compo
nents - there are just vendors out there  that have made a business of making 
items with numbers or renumbering stuff,  and others charge to "authenticate" 
them.  In the Corvette hobby (which  started all this stuff) folks have 
discovered that worrying about numbers has  SUCKED THE FUN OUT of the Corvette 
hobby.  Please don't take Corvairs  down this bridgeless road to...
Craig Nicol