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[Tony Underwood]

At 10:30 AM 5/2/2014, Bruce Schug via VirtualVairs wrote:
>I'm sure Dave knows a lot about it, as he knows a lot about all 
>Corvairs. But, Jeff Barrett is probably "THE" Super Monza expert.
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The <attachment.doc> file isn't entirely accurate, at least the last 
paragraph.

The car WAS restored long before it went to Michigan where it is 
today.  It spent quite some time at the CPF Museum in Richmond, until 
the Museum lost its building to other interests.   I got a chance to 
see it and go over it when it first showed up at the Vair Fair 
following its acquisition by the VA chapter that did a lot of 
footwork on getting the car back to the way it was when "new"... or 
rather the way it ended up after GM tricked it out.

It's actually a 700 and not a "Monza".  As acquired, it was missing a 
few pieces, including the original wire wheels.   Word has it that 
the wires on it now were in fact the original wires that had been on 
the car which a few years before had been sold off to Bill Burleson, 
who later donated them back to the VA chapter to return them to the 
car.  I'm not entirely sure this was exactly what happened (as in 
they actually Were the original GM-Supplied wire wheels) but Bill 
told me he'd bought them from a guy who said they had come off some 
oddball concept-car Corvair or some such, and they are the same style 
of "straight laced" spoke wires originally on the car.  Anyway, these 
wheels are what is on the car today.

So is my NOS stainless belt-trim...    ;)   It was among some other 
small things donated to the restoration, seeing as its original 
stainless belt trim was not exactly show quality.   The parts that 
aren't stainless are the original-surviving cast and chrome plated 
one-off pieces on the doors.

Seeing the car today compared to how it looked then it was acquired 
by the VA chapter is a reminder of how far it has come... and it 
actually wasn't all THAT bad to begin with, just cosmetically tired 
and weathered and worn with a few primer spots here and there.   It's 
too bad its stablemate "Pinky" wasn't saved and preserved, and it 
could have been.

This is all reflection... I've not seen the car since it left here.

tony..