<VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather

[Duane, Jim E.]

Hi all.

Add 15 degrees to that and I'm game!  What strange looks I get!  The stock heater is "ok" provided you start out in a semi-heated garage.  I took my '66 to work twice last week, travelling from northern MA to southern NH.  If the weather calls for mid 40's as a high and it is sunny (and NO ICE!!!) I'll take her. 

Jim Duane
'66 Corsa 180 CVT
Colonial Corvairs
CORSA     

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From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Matt Nall
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 11:25 PM
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Subject: Re: <VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather

-----Original Message-----
From: mark <mark at noakes.com> 


in -20F ambient when running 
65mph on the interstate...doing my usual trip driving late at night. 
With the heater running full blast, it got cold enough in the car that 
the aftermarket radio LCD display quit working. Everything was routed to 
the defroster to keep the window clear of ice. We had to stop for the 
night. My wife is pretty tolerant but has never let me forget that one. 
This was in the mid 1980s when the 61 Lakewood 

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Mark...  my bad....  LM  CARS  have great heat systems..


 Earlies  run thru the rockers!!  LM's  down the center of the body...  Huge difference!


 VW  Beetles were the same way... longer you drove at speed.. the colder your feet got!


note:   That was the first winter I had the car...and was moving north that day....
The next year I had made a few Mods....and was able to get 140F  air  out the rear seat vent on a below Zero day....


 I was able to see some of the tricks in '79 while in FairBanks Ak.    guy said he drove his all year...