<VV> Corvair Value - Jay Leno "influence"

[AeroNed at aol.com]

What about a Stinger, wouldn't/couldn't that be worth $10000 or more?
 
BTW I haven't paid more than a couple thousand for a Corvair, but sure have 
 sunk more than that into them...
 
Ned
 
 
In a message dated 9/4/2010 9:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Sethracer at aol.com writes:



In a message dated 9/3/2010 1:03:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight  Time,  
bonanz01 at myfairpoint.net writes:

I just  think  that the potential Corvairistas have been lead to believe
that 'Vairs   ain't worth Dog Poop!

What do YOU think? 

I like Jay a lot,  but  I think he may have screwed-up here.................

Or am I  full of  it?

Oh, and no DOG in my household at present, and I  don't own a  
"Scooper".....

And PLEEZE don't kill the  Messenger,  okay?


I am on the record as loving Corvairs - I  even still have one of the 
Orange 
Bumper stickers. But I am also kind of a  cheapskate - despite also loving 
cars  in general. I have way too  many. I know the value of a nice car. I 
have paid  $3000 for a  Corvair - never more. The $3000 Corvair was not a 
particularly good   deal, either. Just a whim of a purchase - that I am 
still 
paying for -  Trying to  make it "right". I just picked up a 2002 Camaro, 
probably  
an autocross car  project, for $2900. It is well equipped - for what  I was 
seeking, and a  safe, easy to drive, reasonable economical (V6,  5-speed) 
car 
in good  condition. It also has working air bags, cold  Air Conditioning 
and 
just  passed smog test.  I don't know why  any Corvair should be worth 
$10,000 -  And I mean any! Yes, you could  "invest"- to use the term 
loosely - 
more  than that in a car to make  it nicer than Chevy ever built. Why? 
because 
you like  the car? Fine,  spend the money! The inflation of the muscle car 
market has  always  seemed a bit odd to me. To see it possibly influence 
the 
Corvair   "market", is disappointing. I like to see people appreciate the 
car 
for  what it  is and what it represents. Unlike the 67 Camaro, that some  
frustrated 55  year old still remembers was the car that the football  
quarterback 
used to score  with the cheerleader back in his high  school. And now he 
has 
to have one,  because now he can afford to  reward a hoarder or an 
auctioneer!  
A pox on them! Well, maybe  not the cheerleader, she, too is pushing 55, 
and 
now drives a  Lexus.

Anyway, explain to me why a Corvair - any Corvair, except,  maybe, the 
Monza 
GT or SS - should bring more than $10,000. Would the  person who pays more 
than  that be more likely to join a Corvair  Club, or bring their car out 
to 
a meeting,  or autocross their car  -(showing it's better traits)?  I only 
hope  they lose their  shirts on the deal - again, not speaking of the 
cheerleader,  here -  just the speculator.

Seth  Emerson
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