<VV> CPF Traveling Museum gains Traction

[Frank Ness]

Pete,
 
Do you have an non rebuild-able engine that you could leave the cam, crank, pistons, rods etc out of. That would make your display a lot lighter, easier to move. It shouldn't be to hard to get someone at a car show to give you a quick hand setting it up. At the Toss in Palm Springs last year the San Diego club brought a 150 that was a cut away and displayed it on an engine stand. That requiered a lot more mussle power. Not being a cut away not so much.
 
Thanks for doing this. We had a Western Director, Jack Pinard, who showed up at several Corvair events I attended pushing the vitures of CORSA. He saw working at getting Corvair people to join. Again kudos to taking time to make this happen.
 
Frank
 

--- On Sat, 1/16/10, peter koehler <pkoehler01 at atlanticbb.net> wrote:


From: peter koehler <pkoehler01 at atlanticbb.net>
Subject: <VV> CPF Traveling Museum gains Traction
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 7:12 PM


As Tim Colson mentioned here in VV, the Greenbrier 
destined to serve as a traveling museum to promote CORSA 
and the CPF has moved from his driveway. It is now parked 
in Martinsburg, PA at Barry Musselman's Corvair shop. In a 
few weeks we will hold an event for the local Keystone 
Corvair Club known as a "Corvair Fun Day". Normally we 
call for a fun day to rip apart some terrible, worn out 
Corvair and send it off to the crusher. This time is 
different; we're going to put the ColsonBrier back 
together again!

I still need to figure out a way to carry a complete 
Corvair engine display in the van. It would be easier to 
go in and out of the side doors. I did buy a rebuilt 
engine from Tim to put in the van that should make it very 
reliable. But...would you cover up the top engine access 
panel with another engine and then cross your fingers that 
you would never have to get to the engine during the trips 
planned for this event? Me neither. So I think the best 
way to handle this would be to pull the two rear seats and 
maybe put a partial camper package back in. That way I 
could store some of the supplies and artifacts needed to 
make this tour worthwhile for the club. There should be 
enough room for an engine on a stand to slide in with the 
camper stuff installed. Anybody got an extra Camper kit???

Some offers to help have been coming in. That is great! 
Anyone planning to attend any of the events listed in my 
last post would be welcome to hang out and help spread the 
Corvair "Word". I've also received a few offers to help 
with the cost of this tour. My suggestion would be if you 
are so inclined just make a donation to the CPF (tax 
deductible!) and earmark it for the Traveling Museum 
display project.

Thanks, and I'll keep all of you posted on my progress. 
Also look for a brief Foundation Focus article in a future 
issue of Communique concerning these plans. It's going to 
be fun! - Pete the travelin' Caveman

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