<VV> Museum.......

[mopar at jbcs2.net]

Harsh reality sets in with something like this.
CORSA is declining in numbers.
We have a car made for only 10 years.
Is this going to bring in enough visitors to support it?
I think not.

Recently toured the Northeast Auto Museum in Norwich NY.
Fantastic setup, largest collection of Air Cooled Franklins in existance.
But is it wasn't for sponsors and benefactors it most likely wouldn't exist.
Buffalo Transportation Museum, (Pierce Arrow Museum)it is growing, but
cannot support itself due to limited interest. Recently attended two
special functions there and was amazed that the attendance was not as I
would have expected.

I like museums.
Go out of my way to see the various collections and learn of vehicles I
have never encountered before. some albums here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/swi66

But people generally do not do this.
They can go to a cruise night for free.
Look up anything on the internet.
And quite frankly history bores a lot of people, and some have a very
narrow focus on the hobby. Their favorite car and nothing else!

The Corvair will have to piggyback on the tails of some other museums
collection.
I think we are very lucky to have what we do have where we have it.
A better idea is to get representative displays going in various other
museums throughout the country.
A Corvair only museum? 
Without a benefactor with deep pockets.
It is not going to happen.

Gary Swiatowy

  From: cfm <cfmann at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> museum

this is exactly what I wanted my post about hot air marketing to spawn. A
discussion about a BIG museum. At least bigger than the one we have now.
(mark, I know) I was jostling around the concept of a "half the size" of
the corvette museum kind of thing. A place big enough to take in a rotating
exhibit of our own cars, trucks, vans, airplanes, sand rails, dune buggies
and air boats. When you think about the contribution of the corvair engine
itself as a mechanical marvel to the mechanized industries it can blow your
mind.
"if you build it they will come"
to do this 
1.) negotiate with villages, cities, and/or townships, parishes, whatever,
to get some land that is nearly tax free (so to speak) or have something
donated then change it to a tax free or nearly tax free hunk of land
2.) design a basic building, nothing fancy, maybe even an insulated metal
pole building with phased additions along the way
3.) conventions, swap meets, workshops, car shows, club meetings,
restoration facilities, a tech library, programs for youngsters, children
to experiment with air cooled technology or car design, the learning
concepts could be "think outside the box, and a proving grounds,
wouldn't this be SOOOOO COOOOOL!!!! Who hear has ever heard of EAA? Think
about what they did with their organization, a full scale operational
facility dedicated to airplanes.
We could do the same thing!
think big ideas for a nice small wonderful little car!

George Jones <65crownv8 at gmail.com> wrote: Thought that offer was made some
time ago, but CORSA nixed it because it
wasn't a "central location". This is all heresay, but I wouldn't mind
finding out the details behind the offer......

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM,  wrote:

>
> Or better yet, some REALLY deep-pocket individual to build us a
>  Corvair-only
> museum somewhere and maybe even give CORSA headquarter offices in  it!
>  Hey,
> dream big!
>
> ~Bill Stanley
> http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2397326
> '66 Monza Coupe Custom (in progress)




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