<VV> smog pump cars, build verification

[Frank DuVal]

Must have been a long time ago.

I repaired a 65 coupe that had a head on collision in town traffic. It 
drove the front panel into the gas tank. Angle crash, so the point of 
the front panel took the most hit. Headlamps almost pointed at each other.

When I bought the front clip at a wrecking yard that specialized in 
older vehicles, he was amazed I would pay $500 for it and get the 
insurance company to reimburse. I had just restored the car for my 
customer when she got hit, so it had a high provable appraised value.

I must find those pictures.

Before, after..... after, after...

Customer's name was Winnett and they move to New Jersey in the 90s.

The car got flooded in a parking garage, but I hear it was repaired again.

Frank DuVal


On 4/30/2013 8:26 PM, judynrandy at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Thank you to all who replied to my post.  From that info I have come to the following conclusions: 1. All this time I thought that the  car was original, but apparently not.  2. It had a "high mount A/C compressor mount.  I remember talking to Jeff at the corvair ranch about it.  3.  The 140 was indeed a 140. It had all its carbs.  And I remember it had a '66 style air cleaner assembly.
>        So, it sounds like someone used the dealer "kit" Seth told me about.  Unfortunately, the car no longer exists.  After the accident, it was sold to a friend in the local corvair club as a parts car.  Low speed head-on collisions do that sort of thing, ya know.
>
> Cap'n Hook
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