<VV> The Rising Price of Corvairs

[Jamie & Tanya Reinhart]

Pete, Here's my story. God bless my mother for keeping records. She 
presented me with an old note book awhile back. This was the entries in it. 
1966 Corvair, Bought on 9-13-80 for $500. I was 15 years old. I remember 
going to get the car and trailering it home. The shift cable was broke. The 
car was a 1966 Monza 2 door hardtop with a 110 powerglide. Dad and I, well 
mostly dad, did the body work on the car and had a friend, who was a body 
man, paint it. We sold the car on 5-16-81 for $1100 Why? Because this now 16 
year old boy (me) found a 1965 Monza 140 4-speed for $325 sitting in an 
alley. More HP and four gears is better, right? Did the same thing to the 
second car as the first and drove it until it blew a head gskt. Traded it 
for a 74 Buick Century. Now skip ahead to April 2002. I had been persuing a 
low mile 66 Monza convt. since I had sold my second Corvair. It had been 
sold by the local dealership here in Cresco and my dad remembers doing the 
new vehicle service on it. I actually put new o-rings in the engine and 
redid the brakes on the car in 1985, when I worked at the same dealership. I 
had been hounding the second and third owners of the car, to sell it to me, 
for 20 years.  I finally got the third owner to sell it to me for $3500. For 
me it was worth the price at the time and now it is in the body shop getting 
a new paint job inside and out. I hope I can get it back together before the 
2010 Convention. Yes prices are going up, but at a more reasonable rate than 
any other collector car. That's my story and I'm stickin to it!

Jamie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter koehler" <pkoehler01 at atlanticbb.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:22 AM
Subject: <VV> The Rising Price of Corvairs


> Hey! Let's chat about something new here. How about the
> rising price of Corvairs? I mean this is ridiculous. Maybe
> Cal and Joan got all the deals back in the early '70's??
> My first Corvair was a 1963 Monza 4 door sedan
> non-hardtop. It was also non-engine, but it had really
> cute bucket seats. In a four door! How cool? So I bought
> it for $10! That was in 1968. I had to pay $20 for the
> 1960 Rambler American station wagon (that was chopped down
> to a pickup - El CaMerican?) so I could trade that piece
> for a tired 1961 Monza coupe that did have an engine.
> Swapped it out and drove the wheels off that 4 door. The
> rest, as they say, is history. So was that first Corvair
> after I took out a telephone pole with it one afternoon.
> The one car accident. Was Ralf right?
>
> Oh yeah, back to rising prices. I had to pay $2100 this
> past February for the twin to my first Corvair. At least
> this one had an engine in it!! What's your story? -
> Caveman Pete
>
>
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