<VV> VA Vair Fair> Engine Cooling and Other Musings

[BBRT]

I attended the VA Vair Fair in Lexington. Some very nice cars, always fun 
people, tremendous door prizes incl. an inspection scope with small head to 
fit through a small spark plug hole, and great food...all day long.
Smitty drove his show car/parade 64 Spyder Convertible from & back to 
Virginia Beach. It is several hundred miles.
I think the fuss is that many of us replace old parts with other old 
parts... and eventually they wear out. And we do it again, rather than 
getting a new bearing or whatever.
And, several of us race Yenko Stingers with the right angle belt drive. 
Seems to work. [Yes, John, a better fan would help.]

Chuck S
BBRT
YS 073
GT3 09/89


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lonwall at corvairunderground.com" <corvairs at pacifier.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Engine Cooling and Other Musings


> On 5/21/2012 11:20 AM, Dave Keillor wrote:
>> I guess I should have a vague sense of
>> unease when driving one of the Corvairs.  And I do -- even though I've
>> never had a breakdown in one of my Corvairs in the thousands of miles 
>> I've
>> been driving them since 1967.  Maybe I do too much reading of posts in 
>> VV,
>> FastVairs, and the various Corvair forums that discuss the numerous ways
>> Corvairs can fail.
>
> Do ya think?
>>
>> On the other hand, I don't have the same feeling of unease when
>> road-tripping in the '73 Nova 350.  Maybe it's because the Nova people
>> don't discuss failure modes nearly as much as the Corvair folks.
>
> Do ya think?
>>    Maybe
>> that's because the SBC Nova is a more reliable vehicle, or maybe it's an
>> illusion.
> Maybe it is an illusion. I see no evidence to suggest that a Nova or any
> other water pumper is more reliable than a Corvair.
>
> What I DO see is a "culture" of paranoia that has surrounded the Corvair
> and has gotten a lot worse over the past 10 years or so.
>
> I blame -
>
> The Internet - or possibly I should explain that the internet has made
> the efficient spread of the wrong-headedness possible.
>
> I notice that it's mostly the newer owners who are afraid to drive their
> Corvairs.  Trying to tell them that they are worrying over nothing gets
> drowned out by replies from so-called new age Corvair experts, many of
> whom hardly even drive Corvairs.
>
> Oh well. If you're afraid to drive your Corvair it's your loss.
>
> Lon Wall
> www.corvairunderground.com
>
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