<VV> Cutaway Corvair Drivetrains

[Charles Lee]

I think that someone in our club had a Corvair Cutaway Drivetrain, quite
possibly the coolest thing ever, in his living room no less;>~}?

It was pristine at that time, and may be the one that ended up in our
museum?

For privacy reasons, I won't disclose his identity, but he (you?) may
comment on my recollection, when he introduced me to the greatest
"everything pizza ever"?

Charlie

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I don't know if anyone has seen this from Hemmings:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/11/12/pair-of-display-chevrolet-v-8s
-include-a-little-bit-of-new-york-worlds-fair-history/?refer=news
but a pair of cutaway Chevrolet display engines are coming up for auction.
As the article explains, these were displayed at the 1964-1965 New York
World's Fair.  The expected auction price is $60,000 - $80,000.

Group Corvair had one of the Corvair drive train cutaways.  It had
originally been donated to the DC school system and later discarded.  After
changing hands a couple of times, Group Corvair acquired ownership in the
1990s.  It's since been donated to the Corvair Preservation Foundation.
While our sample showed the years of neglect and didn't have as nice
display case, it was more elaborate.  (We did clean it up and restored as
much as we could without a major disassembly.)

The cutaway Corvair drive train included not only the engine and transaxle,
but also had a complete rear suspension system.  (Ours had been updated to
the late model rear suspension but was still an early engine.)  The entire
system was motorized so that the engine and drive train rotated while the
wheels road up and down on eccentric road rollers to illustrate the
operation of the rear suspension.

I doubt a Corvair drivetrain would elicit as much interest as a Chevy V-8,
but I suspect it's still a pretty valuable artifact.

Jim Simpson
Group Corvair
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