<VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather/compared to a '60s VW Beetle

[Brent Fullard]

Back in the day I had both a '69 VW Bug and later a '69 Karmann Ghia. They both proved how totally useless they were in providing any semblance of heat in a Canadian winter. In both instances I installed an electric rear windshield defroster grid on the inside of the front windshield. I got tired of the ice scraper approach. 

--- On Mon, 2/13/12, hallgrenn at aol.com <hallgrenn at aol.com> wrote:

From: hallgrenn at aol.com <hallgrenn at aol.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather/compared to a '60s VW Beetle
To: patiomatt at aol.com, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 3:16 PM


When I got back to the US after several years with VW beetles in central Germany I immediately appreciated the luxury of heat in winter with my '68 Monza (mothballed for three years).  In the VWs you had to make a left turn to feel the heat on your face from the weak heater/defroster--and this was with a well maintained car.  On a 1,000 mile run to Stockholm and back one January I had a blanket and a small scraper for the INSIDE of the windshield--but I never got stuck at least.  When I had the new '68 in Germany (before I left the Army) I never had heat problems even in the mountains.  (I did have a broken heat control cable so I kept pliers in the car to pull it in and out).  Back in the US again with the '68 Monza it was pure luxury to have an electric blower to pump out the heat from the flat six (as opposed to the four in the VW).  And my friends thought the rear seat duct was great.

Bob


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





-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Nall <patiomatt at aol.com>
To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sun, Feb 12, 2012 11:25 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Drive a Corvair in 15f weather


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

n -20F ambient when running 
5mph on the interstate...doing my usual trip driving late at night. 
ith the heater running full blast, it got cold enough in the car that 
he aftermarket radio LCD display quit working. Everything was routed to 
he defroster to keep the window clear of ice. We had to stop for the 
ight. My wife is pretty tolerant but has never let me forget that one. 
his was in the mid 1980s when the 61 Lakewood 
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ark...  my bad....  LM  CARS  have great heat systems..

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

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

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

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

att Nall
harleston, Oregon
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ttp://tinyurl.com/Matts-Tech-Pages





 
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